i have to go to bed now*, but i want you to know that i support you in this endeavor, and look forward to reading the thread from the archives!

*(by 'now', i mean '3 hours ago')

For once I'm actually awake to participate in this thread.

I never get tired of seeing this anime "quest" bullshit on here.

You were about to move out to investigate one of three possible areas that the local Feds could be using to mount abush operations.

CURRENT SQUAD STATUS

David Lister - MS-06J Zaku II (Ground Type, Custom colours)
120mm Machine Gun (100 rounds, 4 reloads)
2x Leg mounted 3-Tube Rocket Launchers
4 Crackers
Heat Saber
Boxer Shield

Zolomon Ringo - MS-06D Desert Zaku
Zaku Shotgun (12 Shells, 2 Reloads)
70mm Vulcans
90mm Wrist Vulcans
2x Heat Hawks

Jolyne Brande - MS-06K Zaku Cannon
180mm Cannon (15 Shells)
120mm Machine Gun (100 round, 2 reloads)
4 Crackers

ACTIVE DEADLINES
GOUF WILL BE REPAIRED IN: 14 HOURS
HILDOLFR WILL ARRIVE IN: 5 DAYS
FURTHER TIME NEEDED TO SET UP SHAKEDOWN TESTS: 2 DAYS TOTAL

Your orders?

>>7013894

>>7013927
Before we actually go out, can we finalize our plans for the Hildolfr test?

LET THE RAILROADING COMMENCE!

ALL ABOARD!

Well I guess we'd better check out the area.

>>7013992

Here's the layout. The total time needed to finalise the Hildolfr totals up to two days. Checking out each of these possible hiding spot and getting back will take a day, each.

You have 5 days remaining, so you can do everything, in what order though is up to you.

oh boy oh boy is it time to listen to OP's AWESOME FANFIC!? yeah! then we can decide load outs and act like it made a difference at all and then circle jerk eachother yaaaay

>>7014033
Okay then. I am unsure about what we need to do for the test. Will a mock ambush be sufficient? If so, then Zolomon and Jolyne can hide using their camouflage while we act as the bait. Once we have it's attention, Jolyne starts shelling it from afar, and while it's pinned, Zol comes out and uses all his dakka to try to immobilize it by aiming for the treads.

Once that's done, it's mostly over since it can't rotate it's turret, right?

>>7014032
>Well I guess we'd better check out the area.

Of what? Each of the three possible sites you've been able to spot?

>>7014085
Since it's going to take a day to check out each, yeah.

Out of the three, I don't think the most obvious is the one they'd choose. Let's check out the "middle" one? Whatever.

>>7014077

It's nothing quite so interesting unfortunately, you just need to work with the Depot's team to try and work out a decent itenerary for which tests are done when, and where, and on what. It's mostly filling out forms and setting up large target markers. It's just to get a decent test, you'd need about two days of work. You could do an hour here and there, but if you were also going to the possible ambush sites then it might impact on your sleep. You SHOULD be fine, but given that the 128th depot looks like it got taken out without the alarms going off...

>>7014109
Ah, I thought we would be coming up with ideas for the test itself. And I had no idea how to do that. In that case, let's take care of the test first; if the Feddies are planning an ambush, they might wait until the final days to get set up. Going to early might mean missing them.

Can yoou give us a description for each of the possible ambush sites so we can decide which one to go to first?

>>7014102

There are three areas:

Another disused tin mine. Which would be easy enough to take out simply by collapsing the front entrence.
Hell, you could simply do it just to make sure.

A set of mountain villages with road access. Current intelligence marks them as unihabited due to being close to a Colony piece hit.

Lastly

A former tank barracks. It was attacked and taken by Zeonic forces about a month ago, but after the forces moved on, it's possible that survivors moved back in. It would be obvious choice however.

CHOOSE.

>>7014163
Well, let's go toss a cracker grenade into the tin mine. Then check the village.

>>7014180

>Well, let's go toss a cracker grenade into the tin mine.

Tin mine today then? Village tommorow?

>>7014187
Nah, village today, mine later.

Fuck, /tg/ archieve have been refusing to put out all day.
Did I miss much if the last thing I saw of the first Zeonquest pt 16 was around 200ish reply?
I think we had just given a briefing and were planning the Hildolfr testing thing.

As for places to go, Mountain Village for sure.

>>7014163
>It would be obvious choice however.

So obvious, no one would think they'd do it. Let's blow the tin mine, then check the tank barracks, then the village. In that order.

>>7014157
I concur. Preparations first, recon later.

>>7014212
Didn't miss much. We're gonna work with the techs to get the test ready and patrol some possible feddie ambush sites.

>>7014212
>Fuck, /tg/ archieve have been refusing to put out all day.

This is because the archive retriever function has been borked all day. Clicking random thread still works, which means that the pages are still there.
Just click random, and then replace the thread number with the number from yesterday's thread (it should still be on your history data right?)
The thread should pop right up.

>Nah, village today, mine later.
>As for places to go, Mountain Village for sure.

Village it is then. You have the option of a second squad. Do you take it?

>>7014243
Naw, leave them at the base. We can handle it ourselves.

>>7014243
Bring them with us, using the bait and shadow method from before, UNLESS that would leave the base low on defenses.

>>7014243

I missed the thread yesterday. Could you or someone give me a link to it in the archive?

>>7014262
Seconding this.

The base needs to be defended at all times. I do believe we had one stolen Zaku unaccounted for.

>>7014262
>Bring them with us, using the bait and shadow method from before, UNLESS that would leave the base low on defenses.

It would. So you decide to leave them behind.

You travel by foot to the mountainous village. The journey takes four hours of walking.

"Is it REALLY true that you've gone through the entire war with your targeter turned off."

"I like being able to shoot without having a rudimentary IFF computer saying I'm pointing at an enemy all right?"

"You can disable that you know."

"I *HAVE* disabled it Jo, the entire thing is off. I'll just do it by hand, it's easier."

"It really isn... whatever, you're the CO."

You arrive at the Village at about 11:30 in the morning.

>>7014351
Seriously, did we just discover our newtypeness? Or what?

What's the situation with the village?

>>7014362

The Village as you crest the red stone canyons that hide it has indeed seen better days. You can see naught but shattered buildings with patchwork repairs. In the distance looms a giant chunk of Colony.
Despite this, you can still see signs of life, burning bonfires and ragged clothes hung out to dry.
Evidently some squatters have moved in.

GOING TO DINNER NOW - BUT HOW DO YOU PROCEED?

>>7014395
One of us should get out and start asking around if there have been any new arrivals lately, if they have seen tanks of MS. Try to see if the feddies are trying to hide here.

>>7014395
>>7014421
The locals may not be too friendly to Zeonic soldiers. Let's check things out from a distance a bit more, preferably concealed. Do we have binoculars with us? How about self-defense weapons?

>>7014421
and we should remember that we're in occupied territory, so perhaps ditch the uniforms and try to pass as lesser Earthlings?

>>7014461
>>7014467
Oh yeah. Forgot about that. Well, I guess long range surveillance works too.

Yeah, don't our optics have any zoom capability?

I'm assuming we don't see any military equipment or MS outright. Any tracks though? Anything on sonar or any other sensors?

>>7014637
sonar would probably be our best bet; because it's (somehow) very sensitive to minovsky particles, and it presumably has a relatively long range, we should be able to outright detect any MS by distortion in the sensor. Oh, if only we could get our hands on a Feddy Type 47 hover truck.

>>7014637
>Yeah, don't our optics have any zoom capability?

>I'm assuming we don't see any military equipment or MS outright. Any tracks though? Anything on sonar or any other sensors?

You scan the area for enemy forces. There a plenty of places for tanks to hide, with all of these shanty houses, not so much for a Mobile Suit.

Infrared and Sonar pick up nothing indicitive of enemy forces. It doesn't mean that they haven't been through here though. You scan the area for tracks. You can see any signs of tank tracks, mostly tire using vehicles.

>>7014467
>and we should remember that we're in occupied territory, so perhaps ditch the uniforms and try to pass as lesser Earthlings?

This would be advised. You've got a GREAT BIG symbol for why the people of this village should hate the Zeon right in front of you, it's probably not a good idea to reveal yourselves.

You check your cockpit, and discover the old Civilian clothes that you used back San Jose. Hell, the bloodstains probably wont even raise questions given the circumstances.

A contact comm with Zolomon reveals that he still has his. Though a little messy since he'd been using bit's of it as a grease rag. Jolyne of course does not have any civilian clothes in her cockpit.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7014740
Jol stays in suit, ready to blast shit to hell. Us and Zol dress as civvies, take our pistols, hidden in our pants/jackets of course, and go investigate.

>>7014765
Couldn't have said it better myself.

>>7014765
reverse-Amuro-visits-his-mother-episode? I approve

>>7014765

Both of you step out in your old and must clothes. From what you've seen, you'll fit right in.

You are currently armed with
9mm Submachinegun
9mm Sidearm with Silencer

Zolomon is armed with
9mm Sidearm
Sawn-Off Shotgun (you don't know WHERE he got this.)

You trudge into the village to investigate, spare backpacks with some MRE's and a short range radio that can communicate with Jolyne.

From the ground level the damage to the village becomes even more apparent. You cant see a single intact window, most of them are simply boarded up. Some are simply covered with plastic sheeting or rags.
From behind them you feel eyes peering at you.

You move to the nearest bonfire. There is nobody around, you see some muddy footprints of undetirminate age around the fire.

To the north are more ruined houses. The colony fragment looms apparent.

To the east is a Ruined house. It's door is broken in and it's windows boarded up. An attatched woodshed has it's doors open, it swings in the light wind with a eery creak. There are no signs of life.

To the West is a house largely flattened by a rockfall.

To the South leads the path back to your Mobile Suit.

ORDERS?

>>7014973
Stand around the fire for awhile and see if anyone comes out. They may have hidden because we are strangers.

>>7014973
check towards the colony fragment? Someone probably got the idea to strip it clean earlier, but if that's the case, we'll probably also find nearby activity

Check the house to the east. Cover each other.

If we run into anyone, our cover story is: We're college buddies from California. When Zeon attacked we lost most of our families, and decided to get out of there as fast as we could, heading east, hoping to be safe in the desert. We lost our wheels and have been walking through the desert for a day.

>>7015011

You wait around the campfire for about 20 minutes to see if anyone comes out. Nobody does. You don't feel the prescence of people staring at you anymore though.

>>7015039
>Check the house to the east. Cover each other.

>If we run into anyone, our cover story is: We're college buddies from California. When Zeon attacked we lost most of our families, and decided to get out of there as fast as we could, heading east, hoping to be safe in the desert. We lost our wheels and have been walking through the desert for a day.

You carefully peer through the doorway. You can see old muddy footprints on the floor leading into and then out of the house. There is a disquieting smell inside.
You advance further, a quick check in the Kitchen reveals that it's cupboards are bare, some of the doors ripped clean of their hinges.

The living room has a broken television and slowly rotting floor carpet. The couch has been stripped of cushions, as have the curtains (assuming that those curtain rails were in use.)

The other rooms on the ground floor are much the same. Somebody has left a turd in the toilet, which is probably accounting for the smell.

You travell upstairs, the smell persist.

>>7015189

You check upstairs, the stairs creak at your passing, but remain solid. You can spot the bathroom by the unhealthy smell can be detected from, you attempt to close the door to discover that it has been kicked off it's hinges. The medicine cabinet is open and bare.

The next room is a childs bedroom. The wallpaper is now fading a disquiting shade of green. The crib is empty.
There a couple of stuffed animals here.

The next room has a stripped bed, the mattress is on the floor nearby. The wooden sloats of the bedframe have been ripped out. Possibly for firewood.

The final room in the building appears to be locked

WHAT DO YOU DO?

>>7015279
Knock. Then possibly kick the door down, ready to shoot.

>>7015291

You knock a couple of times on the door. There is no response. You knock again with repeated results.

You look at Zolomon, who nods back at you, the both of you kick the door down.
The horrific smell of rotting flesh assaults you and a tide of flies flies past.
The smell you recognise as being the one you could smell as you went upstairs.

On the bed is the corpse of naked woman, you don't wish to get to close but it appears that she was raped and murdered. Flies are still thick in the area and you both quickly rush back downstairs and out of the house.

You are back at the Bonfire. Quite shaken.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7015413
it must have happened recently; move on to the next target thingy, but make sure Jol has a clear shot on your location in case things go south quickly

>>7015413
INVESTIGATION TIME.
Failing that, make a report about the incident, your superiors may want to be aware that the civilian populace is turning to lawlessness.

>>7015443

Actually the corpse looked at least a month old. It was pretty rotten.

Guess we'll keep searching houses. Keep our eyes and ears open.

>>7015413
Make a note to bury the body later, if we have the time.

Might as well do the decent thing. Unless of course, we run into trouble beforehand.

>>7015503
Or burn it. Whichever one would be faster.

>>7015486
Also, check corners and crossings.

We don't wanna get ambushed.

not going to find anything here by searching normally. Take a coin and throw it into the air, north is heads, west is tails

> make sure Jol has a clear shot on your location in case things go south quickly

You surreptitiously call Jo over the radio.

"Oh go teach your grandmother to suck, egg's I could perform brain surgery with this 180 mil, you just keep yourself alive long enough to call it in."

>check towards the colony fragment? Someone probably got the idea to strip it clean earlier, but if that's the case, we'll probably also find nearby activity

The colony fragment is a good five KM away at least. If it was any closer the town would be gone,

So: NORTH deeper into the village
EAST: Towards the crushed house
or SOUTH back to your Zaku's.
Or something else?

>>7015547

Sorry: WEST towards the crushed house.

>>7015413
Let's check to the West. The house was only partially crushed, not completely. You never know what you might find.

>>7015547
North, check this piece out.

>>7015571
Yeah, but it's 5 km away. If we search the rest of the town for a bit and don't find anything we can go, but since we're already here, I say we finish before moving out.

Just my two cents.

Let's check the crushed house first, and then go north into the rest of the village.

Crushed house might be a good cover for a secret entrance.

Something is definitely rotten in the state of Denma-*cough*
West sounds good, lets check it.

>>7015561

You head to the western house. The front door is partially ajar. Instead of pushing it open you carefully peer through the crack. You see a wire leading from what was probably the door handle. You get your knife and cut it.
You carefully prod the door open from the side. It opens without any traps triggering, you peer inside, it is dark and you are forced to use your flashlight. You find the booby trap. It appears to be a simple but effected wooden spike trap. A length of wood with several lethal spikes attatched put under tension and designed lash out when released. The wood has become slightly brittle and your able snap it and disarm it.
You enter the building, now wary for booby traps.
The whole house seems to creak, it is under a great amount of pressure already.

>>7015643
Draw straws to see who takes point.

>>7015643
Keep the door open and ready to gtfo asap. Any papers? Any trapdoors? ANYTHING OF INTEREST?

If someone took the trouble to boobytrap this place, there's a good chance there's something here.

Even if it isn't Fed forces, and just some crazy desert hillbilly, there should be at least a moonshine still.

>>7015643

Most windows are blocked by stones and rubble. The stairs are too badly damaged to risk them. You can also see a small trickle of dried blood coming from their, implying that you probably aren't going to like what you find up there. Someone appears to have tried to clean it up at some point, but stopped before able to finish.

The living room has caved in, there is nothing of value here.

The kitchen door is missing, but you can see several food cans in various shelves. It looks like that this place hasn't been stripped simply due to the danger of collapse.

In the Bathroom you find a small shrine, with burnt out candles. Several hundred photos are here. Presumably of the dead.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7015710
INVESTIGATION TIME.

Steal photos, twirl moustache?

Aka, that shrine probable hides a secret passage. Gotta be one around here somewhere. SEARCH!

>>7015710
Any rugs on the floor in any of the rooms? Check under then for trap doors. Check under furniture and tables. IF we don't find anything, try to put things back as we found them and head to the impact site.

If we don't find anything of importance, get out before it collapses further.

Investigate houses to the north.

Might be worth to check around/outside the house, there might be a storm cellar or workshop out back.

Oh wait, did we ever check that attached shed at the first house?

>>7015744

You carefully inspect the toilet and the photos. It looks like there are no secret entrances here. Inside the lid of the toilet you do find a key for what looks like a basement.
You also find a Kahr K9 9mm with two reloads in the u-bend. You take them as back-up.

You leave the toilet and look for the basement. You find what looks like a lock to the basement underneath the stairs. The door unlocks and you open the door.
The whole house creaks ominously as you move the stiff door.
You shine the light down, the stairs seem stable.

DO YOU GO DOWN?

>>7015820
MIGHT AS WELL. Zolomon stays out. If shit collapses, he radios Jol to get here as fast as she can to clear the house.

>>7015820
We go in, have Zol stay on the ground floor as lookout.

>>7015843

You carefull step down to the basement, the stair creak and the house protests, but it doesn't collapse on your head at least.
You get to the bottom and look around. You see what is practically an armoury. Several Racks of Assault Rifles, Sniper rifles, bullets, Pistols, SMG's, even a Grenade Launcher and Stinger Missile launcher. Not that those are much use with all the Minovsky particles flying about. A large collection of rifles appear to be missing as well as a large supply of ammo.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7015900
Well fuck. Take a grenade launcher. Have Zol radio Jol.

Maybe we should GTFO and flatten this entire area.

I'm starting to think half of these posts are whining about this stuff on /tg/.

>>7015900

Check for HE. If not, think back to what our Zaku's holding, we should have some satchel packs or whatnot to destroy our suit in case of capture. We can't leave an ammo dump like this for rebels.

>>7015912

Do you want to check the woodshed first?

>>7015900
get out, signal Jolyne that we are coming back, go back to our Zakus and try to get a message back to base telling them what we found.

>>7015950
Might as well. Sure to find something or run into someone.

>>7015950
Check woodshed, head back and report what we found. I'm against flattening the town on the off chance there are bandits hiding there. Or did you mean this house specifically, Bill?

>>7015970
I meant the entire fucking place. But that does seem kind of short sighted.

>>7015981
I mean, we probably could and not get in trouble, but I myself would prefer to avoid the possibility of killing any innocents that may be here.

>>7015941

There are a couple of Satchel bombs you could use. Though the amount of explosives here mean that you probably want to be a fair distance away when it goes off.

It HAS been a while before I had to use that image macro of three people diving away from an explosion though...

You take the Grenade Launcher and a pair of reloads. The Launcher is the revolver type, that is giving me flashbacks to Farcry 2.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7016003
>Blow up towns
>Couragewolf.jpeg
>Fuck the innocent

Check the shed, blow up the weapon cache we found and hope they don't got more?

A bit dissapointing to only find a bunch of small arms though. Hardly the kind of thing to be worried about, what haven't we checked in the village excep the shed?

Check the woodshed first of all. From there we'll figure out something.

Odds are that the Feds know we are here and have chosen not to engage us in the hope that we don't find anything or just finds this rotten little stash.

Perhaps not even Feddies proper, just resistance fighters.

Blow it up!

>>7016019
Yeah, fuck the innocent. Use the minimum amount of force you need to destroy the weapons cache, them get the fuck out and head on over to that colony thing.

>>7016013
Eh, leave the weapons and stuff here. There's nothing that poses a threat to the Zeon MS or armored forces in that arsenal, it's probably just a bandit hideout.

Head to woodshed, if we don't find anything let's get back to our MS and head out to the impact site.

Blow up the house, leave the rest of the town intact. Go to woodshed.

>>7016059
Oi, OP, could we get some sort of bike, or preferably, flying bike strapped to our Zaku?

Maybe on the back or something, but it'd make these little sojourns on foot a bit easier.

>>7016124
Haha. That would be pretty awesome.

>>7016059

Missing weapons and the feeling of being watched. DON'T BLOW THE LOCATION YET. Seriously guys? If we have to, flatten it afterwards. Not while we're still in the town, when we can be bullseyed clear as anything.

Also: Take the stinger missile launcher as a backup in case we need to down a MS on foot.

>>7016148
Haha, oh my god.

>>7016154
Stingers=!RPG. It wouldn't do jack shit to a MS.
Where would we even store it?
Pretty sure we don't have the training for using it either.

>>7016023

You haven't travelled north into the village yet.

>Check the shed, blow up the weapon cache we found and hope they don't got more?

You set the satchel charges for half and hour, that should be plenty, and carefully escape the basement.
It creaks but doesn't collapse.
You leave and inspect the woodshack in the eastern house. The woodshack has been stripped of wood, you check the corners and then the roof. On it is black marker are the words:

"Dig below this"

You remember seeing a shovel aside the shed. You retrieve it and begin digging, underneath you find a message inside a plastic bag. It reads:

"My name is Christopher Arno, Lieutenant in the Federation Army. The rest of my unit are in the house thee doors north. They are rapists and murderers, if you are federation: arrest them. If you are civlian, flee from here.
If you are Zeon: Kill them.

They broke into this house and murdered and rape the woman within, I was able to save her infant, but I don't know for how long I can keep him and myself safe, I am escaping tonight with him, and I hope that I can make the nearest town.

I have planeted explosives in the rockface above their secret armoury, hopefully this will bury it under stone and prevent them from using it for their own ends.

Dated: January 22nd 0079."

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7016189
Radio this intel to Jol. She needs to keep scanning the entire village constantly. Keep the message to give to Zeon command. Could be useful in propaganda.

Get back to our suits as quickly as we fucking can.

This town is about to be gone.

>>7016181

>>The FIM-92 Stinger is a personal portable infrared homing surface-to-air missile

Missile. Not RPG. RPG's are LESS powerful than a missile. And you turn it on, point it, and fire. If ragtag civilians/buncha bandits can use one, so can a Knight of the Realm David Lister. Store it in the same place we kept the clothes, guns, and minifridge. Our cockpit seems somewhat spacious.

AND let's not forget to check the Wood Shed!

>>7016189
Time to spit on their graves, so to speak.

Might be good to confirm that they are actually there and that they don't have civilian hostages. Brownie points with the local population and all that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7FNSSKtEz0

>>7016218
No, RPGs are designed to defeat ARMOUR.
Stinger missiles are designed to take down AIRCRAFT.

Guess what kind of armour a MS got that a plane doesn't (the kind that can take/deflect multiple 155mm sabot rounds).

>>7016189

Motherfuckers. Take the stinger. Use it on the house. Bring trophy of used stinger back to base.

>>7016222

You begin to carefully move forwards. You easily spot the house which they've taken, as it's the only one with lights on. Inside you hear bawdy laughing. You attempt to get a closer look. Both you and Zol manage to scout out most of the visible rooms. You have spotted five men down in the living room eating and drinking alcohol.
In the top floor there is one other man and woman, the woman appears chained to the bed. In another room two more women are chained to a radiator.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7016218
>RPG's are LESS powerful than a missile
Not necessarily. Missiles come in sizes from tiny (http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/1286241.html) to HUEG (http://www.missilethreat.com/repository/imgLib/icbm%20comparison%20chart%20small%20labeled%20%20%20
mda.jpg)
Anyway the point here is the warhead used.
Stingers have 1kg fragmentation warhead deisgned to produce a cloud of fragments that would damage a plane flying through it, but won't harm anything heavily armored.
RPGs produce a jet of compressed copper that pierces through armour and produces a superheated spray of molten metals on the other side.

>>7016250

You wondn't be able to get a lock on, Minovsky Particles remember?

Hmm, we do have silenced weaponry and considerable firepower.
Should be able to kill those 5 on the bottom floor before they can react and then take out the guy upstairs if he either comes down from the ruckus or is unalerted.

Question is if there are more than 6 guys in the house.

>>7016290
Zol has a shotgun. He goes to the door. We stick to a window. He busts in, opens fire. They get distracted, we open up through the window.

We're heroes. We save women in trouble.

Oh wait. We have a grenade launcher.

New plan. Wait until the satchel we planted detonates. That distracts them, we take out the 5 guys in the living room with the grenade launcher. Then we deal with the last guy.

Might want to take the one upstairs prisoner for interrogation. Remember why we are here guys, as nice as some local gratitude (maybe) would be we want to find out about Federation forces in the area.

>>7016331
Do we really want to open fire with high explosives on the bottom floor of some old shitty house when we got people upstairs we want to save?

Those guys downstairs are also pretty distracted/drunk as is. Little point of not just shooting them all in the head while they are still unaware of our precence.

RIP AND TEAR, SEE THEIR GUTS.
Full auto spray of the interior.

>>7016348
>>7016364
Yeah, better idea.

When the satchel detonates, we open spray with our SMG + Zol with his shotgun. When they're dead, we carefully capture if possible, or just kill the last.

Way to demonise the feddies, OP. Are they going to barbecue children and piss on Zeon's flag next, then worship space-satan?

Just got back, what did I miss?

*Reads*

Kill the rapists and mount their heads on pikes. Do it. Dooooooooo eeeeeeeeeeeeet!

You have sunrise and a silenced weapon. ONE of you could proably take them all out before they can react. The ones you see might not be all of them, so take them out real commando like. A prisioner might be good too, but not essenatial as we can propbaly get some info from the ladies upstairs.

Also, explosives in a hostage situation might not be the best idea.

>>7016388

Stuff like this happens sometimes. It's not like I've been painting Zeon in the best of lights either, you know, what with them WIPING OUT HALF THE HUMAN RACE.
That's not exactly positive karma either you know.

>>7016388
Actually we only know this because of that one good guy Feddie. Rotten apples in both armies etc.

>>7016388
>>7016441

Related.

>When the satchel detonates, we open spray with our SMG + Zol with his shotgun. When they're dead, we carefully capture if possible, or just kill the last.

This sounds good. Agreed?

Sorry about the Delay CoH autopatcher is the most inefficiently designed program ever. My processor just went beserk for about five mins to get it's head around it.

>>7016499
Let's be heroic.

>>7016499
Sounds good. Try to take the last guy captive, as has been said.

>>7016499

Tell me about it. After the in-game patch, it downloads a little PoS called 'Relic Downloader' that wanted to do a 12GB torrent.

On a britfag connection.

On an ISP that particularly despises torrents.

Relic are troll developers.

>>7016499
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigDamnHeroes

>>7016506

You wait for the Satchel Bomb to detonate as you carefully set up killing positions. A massive explosion follows. Several smaller landslides follow. You don't think that anything was seriously damaged, you could be wrong though.

Six men run outside, one of them dragging up his pants. You decide to be heroic and stylish, and read out Arno's letter first.

You get to:

"If you are Zeon: Kill them...."

When you decide to introduce yourself.

"Hi. I'm Lieutenant Junior Grade David Lister of Principality of Zeon, the man behind you is my Petty Officer Ringo."

You take advantage of their momentary confusion to launch a grenade at them. Bodies fly everywhere. You finish those that survive off, apart from one.

Zolomon leaves to free the women whilst you have a chat with the survivor. You put two bullets in his legs before your convinced he's telling the truth. Last he heard on the radio, several of the scattered tank units in the area are joining up together. Building up momentum and taking out larger and larger targets. He doesn't know where they're based in or where they currently are."

Zolomon returns leading five women with heavily shellshocked expressions on their faces.

"This is bad shit, my friend." He says to you.

"Zol. I just tortured a man to death. Don't talk to me about bad shit. Let's just... just, get the hell out of here."

YOU RETURN TO THE ZAKU.

>>7016466

The IDEA's behind Zeon are good. It's just ever single person who has ever tried to implement them has been a collosal douche of the highest order.

>>7016633
Give those women some clothes. Get back to our suits. Take them with us if we can fit them inside or carry them.

Also, take any documents they might have. Fed papers might be useful for making forgeries. Also, if they've been hearing radio from Feds, then that means they've got the FED RADIO FREQUENCIES! + a decoder if they're encoded messages.

>>7016662

They've got clothes. Rags admittedly, but clothes nonetheless.

>Take them with us if we can fit them inside or carry them.

You can't really. There's no space, and where would you go? With the troops gone, here should be reasonably safe for now. It still has food and fuel for now.
Hopefully some of the other survivors will take care of them.

>>7016633
Aw, no head-on-pike-mounting? Oh well.

Let's try to find some spare clothing for the women. As for whether or not we take them back to base or not... That sounds like it's their description to make.

Let's look to see if they have a decoder for Feddie transmissions. If we can find one, we might be able to locate them by listening in on their conversations.

>>7016674

You do a search of the house the Soldiers had been squatting. You don't find much in the way of recent orders. You do find a feddie radio though. The signals are intermittant and crackly due to Minovsky Particle interference, and it looks like they stopped taking down messages about a month ago.
There's a truck in the back, it appears fully fueled and operational.
You leave outside to be confronted by about ten people dressed in rags that disguise their features.

"Thank you."

Is all they say as they shufflle away, back into wherever they were hiding. I about ten seconds, it's just you and Zolomon.

YOUR ORDERS?

Get the fuck out.

>>7016738

You HAVE decided to take the federation radio, just in case. By the way.

FEDDIE RADIO ACQUIRED - FEDERATED SIGNALS CAN BE INTERCEPTED IF CLOSE BY.

>>7016761
That'll make it extremely useful in finding Fed encampments, and if we're back at base, could help alert us to attacks.

>>7016738
So about what time is it? Do we have enough daylight left to start checking around to find an area where we can receive some enemy signals on the radio?

Next objective I suppose, the mine or the tank barrack base thingy.

>>7016761

Shouldn't those messages be encrypted?

If so, don't they change the keys weekly/monthly?

Wouldn't it make our little radio useless, since these guys clearly had neither a cipherbook nor the want to use one.

>>7016779

It is currently 2:00pm. It will take a further 4 hours to RTB. That will leave you a few hours to do some work on the Shakedown tests for the Hildolfr.

>>7016782
Man, shut up.

>>7016797
How far away are the mines and barracks from our current locations?

>>7016797

Head back to base and put in a couple of hour into working on the test. Eat and get ready for bed.

>>7016782

They didn't appear to have changed the cyphers that often. You did get a frequencies logbook though. Radio isn't all that important in a post Minovsky Particle war.
Still, it wont work for long, or outside of the state.

>>7016779

Static. No signals currently.

>>7016782
Perhaps, but consider the fact that we know just how short ranged radio is, any message, garbled or not will give away the fact that there is a bunch of radio equiped feddies very near. Our computer could probably pin down the general direction of the signal too.

I keep missing the beginings of these threads... ;_;

In return why I love the Zaku, from my time lurking /m/

>>7016808
>How far away are the mines and barracks from our current locations?

They're pretty much all in different directions.

>Head back to base and put in a couple of hour into working on the test. Eat and get ready for bed.

You decide to walk off back to base.

"Soo... How glad am I that I stayed back in the mobile suit?"

"I dunno, ever seen a dead body, two months old, that's been raped and murdered?" you deadpan.

"Gross! A yes would have worked!"

"Not now Jo. If ever."

You march back to the base in silence. Once you get there you make your report as briefly as possible and then try to do some more hours on the test. At about 11 you turn in for a seven o clock start the following day.

Sleep is fitful, but you've gotten used to not getting much sleep by now anyway.

YOUR GOUF (EARLY TYPE) IS NOW FULLY REPAIRED
DEADLINE TO HILDOLFR'S ARRIVAL: 4 DAYS

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7016921
check up on the gouf, might be repaired, but is she bueatiful again?

>>7016921

I think we all could use a drink. Horrors of war, and um... yeah... lets drink?

>>7016921
Take the radio, head to the mine. It should help us find if there's anyone down there.

If there are Fed forces at the barracks, they'd be easier to find. Might as well get the harder stuff out of the way first. Though I'm not sure how big these mine shafts are and if tanks would be able to realistically move around in them.

>>7016937
I'm assuming we spent the night drinking in silence with Zolomon.

>>7016921
Tank barracks today says I.

>>7016921
Also, get the tech's here to install some of our custom programs into our Gouf for later.

>>7016945
Isn't taking care of the mine as simple as caving in the opening?

>>7016963
Right.

TO THE BARRACKS IT IS!

>>7016965

Aye to the barracks

>>7016932

The Gouf is fully functional, though the arm is unpainted. You'll have to wait until you get home before you can shove your trademark colour scheme on it.

>I think we all could use a drink. Horrors of war, and um... yeah... lets drink?

I'd allow this, but it would take an entire day. You would be too sloshed to properly do prep work for the Hildolfr until the next morning though.

>If there are Fed forces at the barracks, they'd be easier to find. Might as well get the harder stuff out of the way first. Though I'm not sure how big these mine shafts are and if tanks would be able to realistically move around in them.

Tank Barracks next? Yay or Nay?

>>7016970
yay

Leave the Zaku IIJ at the base and take out the Gouf for a spin, to make sure it is working well once the real operation rolls around.

The mine might have more than one opening, hidden.
The radio is probably even less usefull over there as well. Still, KNOWING that there are feddies in the mines is a priority.

>>7016970
>Tank Barracks next? Yay or Nay?

Yay

Do you wish to keep your loadout?
Do you want to switch to the Gouf?
Perhaps go looking for a spare pilot? (This will cost you some time, but no more than five hours, probably less.)

CURRENT TIME REQUIRED FOR FINAL PREP: 25 HOURS.

Go for the tank barracks first, should go swiftly enough if they aint there and otherwise...

Goufy time!

>>7017003
>Do you want to switch to the Gouf?

Yes switch to the Gouf, we need to give it a shakedown to make sure it handles well in combat after all the repair work it's had.

>>7017003
We have the authority to requisition a fourth squad member? Huh, good to know. But I say we go with just the three of us for now. And I vote to keep our Zaku for the time being. And yes to the tank barracks.

>>7017018

You switch back to the Gouf and give it a few paces around the depot to get the feel for it back. You also insert some of the new Subroutines you came up with for SnSh fighting in the Zaku.

YOU ARE NOW PILOTING: MS-07A GOUF (early type)

CHOOSE YOUR LOADOUT.

>>7017034
heat saber, 180mm MG

lets fuck up some shit here

>>7017034
MG, Heat Sabre, 2 reloads, 2 crackers.

Any chance of ever getting those leg launchers modified to fit and work with our Gouf?

>>7017072
>MG, Heat Sabre, 2 reloads, 2 crackers.

Actually, you can get hip rack extenders that increase those to 4 reloads and Crackers. I'll assume that you do so.

>Any chance of ever getting those leg launchers modified to fit and work with our Gouf?

Fraid not. If you look, you can see extra heat venting in that area for your jump jets, it's probably not a good idea to mix superheated steam and high explosives.

Let's loud up and get to the barracks. I'm itching for some combat. Gotta clear our palette after what we saw yesterday.

>>7017130
God damn I hate typos.

>>7017106
Didn't know we could take 3 'accessories'. If that's the case, 2 reloads, 2 crackers and 2 smoke grenades, if possible.

>>7017203

You swap two Crackers with Smoke Grenades.

You head towards the Tank Barracks.

The Journey takes five hours. After yesterday, the mood is still somewhat tense and conversation is sparse.

You reach the barracks around about 12 midday. The base itself still shows heavy signs of battle damage. Fences have been trampled underfoot, several concrete tank bunkers have been demolished, as has the HQ building. You can see no signs of life here.

YOUR ORDERS?

Nothing on the Feddie radio?

Check the radio. Check the facilities. This base was taken by Zeon before. Any word on underground bunkers? Camouflaged entrances?

>>7017254
Check radio to see if we pick up anything. If we hear enemy conversation, listen in. If not, they might be under orders for radio so head into the base for a closer look.

>>7017254
check for vehicle tracks, etc

>>7017264

You check the radio. You can't hear anything specific, but it doesn't sound like static. In fact, it sort of sounds like, heavy breathing?

OH SHIT!

I think someone's about to pull a Pearl Harbor on us!

Aw snerts. Stay alert as we investigate the joint.

>>7017305
could be a badly injured survivor, i'd try to make contact over radio, try to ascertain wether its freindly or foe.

migt aswell not worry too much, its its friendly = go save them, if its not, weve got the damn gouf.

>>7017343
It is the Fed frequency. Maybe we should remain silent over it for a bit and see what happens.

Scan the area with everything we've got.

Nothing comes up, maybe we should say something into it.

Part of me wants to say:

See if we can't get a voiceloop over the feddie radio...first very faintly, as if it were just static or interference. The loop slowly grows louder, so that the feddies strain to hear it until they realize what's being said over and over: "...el muerte grande viene..."

>>7017354
>>It is the Fed frequency. Maybe we should remain silent over it for a bit and see what happens.


oh. totally missed that. in that case i vote for waiting and listening, then depending on outcome. rip 'n' tear

>>7017362
I'll say this.

>>7017362

That would require more technical skill than David currently has. You file the idea away under: "Things to do at some point."
You advance carefully towards the base, trying to get a reaction from your radio.

After a few steps, you find youself about 50m outside what would have been the fence perimeter.

"Do I detonate the Booby traps now?" Comes the voice over the stolen radio, loud and clear.

"No. Wait until he's deeper into the field, maybe the others will move up as well." comes the reply.

You switch to infrared and active sonar. You spot several AT land-mines buried underfoot. Not too many where your standing, but more ahead.

YOUR ORDERS?

Hrmm. Do we pick up any other heat signatures? Any of the buildings? Surrounding area?

We could boost jump beyond the 'fence'. I doubt they would be expecting that.

Perhaps we could use a cracker grenade to set off the mines?

i'd say try not to let on that we can hear them.
also warn the others.

>>7017490
Mhm. But then they'd also know that we know shit is up. We need to make them think we're ignorant of the situation until we can find out where they are.

>>7017450

No, the concrete construction prevents that. Your sonars are picking up several small vibration sources. Possibly from engines of some kind. None of them sound as large as the Type-61's.

>>7017498
Ha ha ha, awesome.

>>7017501
Well.

Looks like we're in a lose lose situation.

What I see as the best course of action: Jol launches some heavy shells at the vibrations. We jump off of the ground, use some smoke to hide our group. We all hit the dirt, to avoid any fire coming into the smoke, and spread out.

It still doesn't sound like that good of a strategy, though.

>>7017498

I knew that SOMEBODY would have already done this design. The Zaku's chest area just conforms to the human ribcage too well.

But damn if I don't think mine looks better.

Woo Zeonquest! I never get back from work in time to participate.

Suggestion for the next time we are sent out on a long patrol or other mission in the South West US. Bring an Airbone Warning And Control craft that can scan the surrounding areas from altitude and laser-com data to us. They would also be able to ping MS squads farther out and question if they're friendly or not. Even if they were feddies and ran, we'd be able to tell where they were going.

is there anything in the immediate area that could justify us veering out of the mine field? if not i'd say jump jets if it won't make us too big of a target.

>>7017537
I like this idea, except that it would prevent us from sneaking up on folk effectively. But having a dedicated pilot in our little gang sounds good.

>>7017540
How about we jump onto a concrete building?

>>7017426
>>7017426
>>7017426
i propose we take a few steps back, and detonate the mines in front of us with the MG, then using the exsplosions as cover, hunt down any vehicles in hiding

Contact our squad to warn them about the mines.

Move forward and wait until the people on the radio say to detonate then activate our jumpjets.

Maybe we'll get some newtype jingle to help.

>>7017554
>How about we jump onto a concrete building?

You could do this.

>What I see as the best course of action: Jol launches some heavy shells at the vibrations. We jump off of the ground, use some smoke to hide our group.

This is also possible

>i propose we take a few steps back, and detonate the mines in front of us with the MG, then using the exsplosions as cover, hunt down any vehicles in hiding

Again, all good options.

would the concrete building support us if we jumped up there?

>Contact our squad to warn them about the mines.

You do so. You don't hear anything over the stolen radio, so you assume that they aren't monitoring the frequency you're using.

>Move forward and wait until the people on the radio say to detonate then activate our jumpjets.
>Maybe we'll get some newtype jingle to help.

This is a very risky strategy. But it probably has the highest payoff of all ideas proposed.

>>7017640

Assuming it wasn't too badly damaged in the intial fighting last month: yes.
Though you may get unlucky.

If we're going to reveal that we can hear them, at least attempt something flashy.

Also, we need some kind of badass thing to say over the radio before we do anything to fuck with their heads.

Like "You can't hide from death," or "You mock my skill, you'll die slow."

>>7017643
i just don't want us to lose a leg, i mean, we just got our damn arm back

>>7017612
A direct attack to start things seems most beneficial. If we hit those mines, then we've just removed some dangerous ground.

If we start it off with an attack on where we know something is, it tips the scale, even if it's a miniscule amount.

Remember, all we know is that there are some mines in front of us. We still don't know how many enemies are here, or where they are. We need to conserve our ammo and be ready to attack actual enemies.

I'm sticking with my original suggestion. And right before Jol fires, we speak into the Fed radio, "Die."

Reminds me of that exchange you had us give before.

>"Die." you command.
>You fire a 240mm rocket into the torso of the Mobile Suit and it complies.

>>7017643
>This is a very risky strategy. But it probably has the highest payoff of all ideas proposed.

Go with it. Are we not men? Are we not men of Zeon!?

>>7017677
>Die

What about satan's suggestions?
>>7017666

>Jol launches some heavy shells at the vibrations. We jump off of the ground, use some smoke to hide our group.

I like the sound of this one.

>>7017718
Thanks. WAIT.

DONT SAY ANYTHING TO THEM ON THE RADIO!

If we maintain that we can't hear them, we can hear more during the actual battle! I am an idiot.

MAINTAIN SILENCE on the fed radio.

After our initial attack, whatever that may be, keep looking for any signs on our sensors and fire on anything that moves.

combine "you can't hide from death', jump jets, and shelling from jolyne"

>>7017736
>>7017736
>>7017736
definately, we don't want the local fedscum forces to start changing their freqs all willy nilly

WHAT THE FLYING FUCK IS A ZAKU

>>7017751
next time we get a chance to customise, i vote for a hull mounted megaphone, ala Kelly's Heroes. for inspirational battle music. and the occassional kill-tuant

>>7017736
true, cancel the first part of >>7017751

>>7017751
Once beam weapons are manufactured, make sure we outfit our suit with a beam scythe and huge metal wings/armor.

>>7017736
>>7017752
Cowardly talk. Fear is a much more useful tool. Zeon on runs on badasses and we're the only one (three) nearby. They need to be more paranoid that they're radio networks are compromised, but it won't matter, as we'll be killing them all anyway.

>>7017761
>>7017761
your new god.
>>7015189
>>7015189

>>7017785
Fuck. Yes.

>>7017788
Yeah. Of course we'll kill them.

But if we can hear what they're saying while they . . . for instance, move to our left, we'll know exactly where they are, and what they're doing.

>>7017788
Wow, bad grammar night for me.

>>7017677

You move to take a step forwards, only midstride to dash backwards. You pull out a cracker and hurl it at the minefield.

Jolyne begins shelling at the bunkers just as your cracker catches the entire minefield in sympathetic explosions. The fireworks and dirt plumes obscure the base and your radio erupts into chaotic cries. You and Zolomon charge forwards into the base, with Jolyne continuing to shell it behind you.

"Scramble! Scramble!" Comes the order over the radio. Numerous jeeps and light vehicles begin pouring out of the barracks. You pull out your 120mm and start bombarding them before they can get clear. Carnage follows.
Several RPG's start whizzing past your head, you leap on top of the bunker to get a clearer view and start firing at another group, they are less bunched up however, and your attacks are less effective, they begin popping smoke to obscure them from you.
You toss your last cracker into the middle. You are unsure of how effective it is, but you don't see any return fire.

A stray RPG hit's you in the back, your computer loudly complans as you rock forwards in your seat. Those RPG's lack punch, but enough will put an end to you.

You dismount the barracks and team up with Zolomon as use the concrete structures for cover as you attack from close range the enemy light vehicles.

After 20 minutes it's all over. Any fleeing units were taken out by Jolyne's long range fire, and the rest you took out yourself. In the confusion not one of them surrendered.

After carefully checking the base you are able to retrieve: 2X FEDERATION PAPERS

Unfortunately there were no survivors...

"Shit. I forgot to say something witty." You comment.

RTB?

Taunt the Feddie scum over the radio, making sure they fully understand you can hear them. Jump once they start panicing, have Joleyne nuke the suspicious buildings, land on one of the ones she didn't aim at.

ENTERING COMBAT MODE.

Yeah. Let's get outta here.

>>7017844
Or this.

DO NOT PURSUE EL MUERTO GIGANTE.

Give the papers a cursory inspection.

Read the papers. THEN RTB.

>>7017844

Searching through all of the dead bodies wasn't very pleasant. You don't want to know what kind of mess a Zaku Shotgun makes of a person. You could definately do with a day of killing things that blow up and don't leave going messy bodies.
Or photographs of their sweethearts right there on the dash.

The Bunkers were stripped, but apparently being used by these Federation Guerrilla's to stage raids on friendly infantry patrols. Your pretty sure if you're reading the killboard right, then they also managed to take down a Zaku once.

Does it seem like this force had the firepower to take out a squad of Zakus? Because if not, there may be more Federation forces out there.

>>7017910
Those tanks have to be buried deep in that mine.

If we can once we return to base, can we authorize a bombing run at that mine?

>>7017907
So we find more traitors. Tsk tsk tsk. Suggest we return to base for today, and give those papers a read on the way.

>>7017907
Take the pictures, especially if they're cute. That's gold on the porn black market in military circles.

Nah, I'm kidding.

>Or am I?

Otherwise, read the papers and back to base. Start plotting a test run for the SUPA-DEATH-TANK-THINGY

>>7017910

Not a squad. Just a single Zaku. Enough RPG hit's at close range to a Zaku's rear armour could probably do it.

>>7017880
>Read the papers. THEN RTB.

The first of papers details new Anti-Mobile Suit tactics for infantry and tanks. It highlights your Zaku's weak rear armour, and advocates the use of swarm tactics as well decoys and booby traps. It's all sensible and effective stuff. You could probably use it for another briefing on surviving the Feds for the other pilots back at the Depot.

The second paper detail an attack the Guerrilla's were called in to take part in. Apparently several tank squads were called in as well.
It details the taking of a supply train, and how these Guerilla's ambushed and killed a Zaku I that was guarding it. It then details how the train was redirected to a disused Tin-Mine.

You return to base. This will take 5 Hours, it will be 5:30pm when you return.

TO BE CONTINUED

TOMMOROW: THE THRILLING CONCLUSION!

BECAUSE I'M PRETTY SURE THE GUY I NORMALLY PLAY V:TM WITH HAS GOT THE FLU.

Thread archived because the archives are back up and running.

KILLS:
You: 18 Light Vehicles
Zolomon: 20 Light Vehicles
Jolyne: 12 Light Vehicles

>>7018007
Well then, with this intel, we're definitely ordering a bombing of that mine. Not just the entrance, but on the ground over the tunnels, hopefully collapsing it all over the place.

awsome day to be a zeon, rackin up dem kills.

>>7018039
Gonna go with this. No need to risk any of our forces, just bomb the shit out of it.

>>7018077
This was nothing.

Shoulda seen us during REAL battles.

>>7018082
And then move in with adequate forces to mop up.

>>7018039
What about any prisoners they might have?

>>7018119
Stop posting as anonymous, OP. Haha.

>>7018083
im totally reading the archived threads.

another hunk of BigTray, anyone?

>>7018136
Fine I'll namefag it up to say that I'm not the OP

>>7018214
:)

>>7018119
Why would they have prisoners? Did you see the damage on the MS we found blocking the tracks? No way the pilots survived. Besides, good of the many and all that jazz.

>>7018244
I think he meant from the train carrying tanks. The one that was meant for the 67th, that these Fed guerrillas hit.

>>7018282
Oh. Well crap. And of course now THEY have the fortification turrets that were being shipped. I still say we bomb them.

>>7018319
Me too.

>>7018319
Aye, next thing you know, the feddies might start thinking they can use civilians/prisoners as shields.

After reading the archived threads, i can't believe no one hasn't pointed this out yet.

It's good to know that our mecha has always been in good hands.

>>7018361
*Doesn't get it.

>>7018361

Gah! Wrong page!

>>7018394
Hey, that guy has the same name as our technician friend! What a coincidence!

>>7018361

From /m/? Welcome! :D

>>7018394
Where the rest of it man?!