I made a plan!

yes this is good tonight we attack so that we may test in peace.

I say we wait.

>>7032180
>>7032180
attacking midnight is fine, i'll let the others worry about loadout.

I'm voting attack the mine tonight and go with the plan someone posted in he previous thread (minus the Hidolfr).

>>7032212

AWESOME!

Where did you get the icons from?

So, you want Ruubens and Jolyne in your squad? What sort of armament do you want for 3 Zaku IIj's?

>>7032212
wait. zaku rush?

i went for an elaborate feign strike plan.


godammit


you guys choose.


im so
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.

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conflicted

>>7032238
thanks for the support

>>7032180

I'd prefer to wait for the Hidolfr, personally.

Also the plan from the previous thread. Less chance of being bottlenecked than if we spam one entrance.

>>7032241
Made them myself awhile ago.

Photoshop down some suitable head icon and superimpose it upon a gradient background.
Outline with pencil.

Have some more

>>7032180
I have to say, I like the idea of everyone going in at one entrance and then splitting up once we're inside if we have to. Since they've probably split their defenses between the three entrances, attacking all of them exposes us to the maximum amount of firepower, whereas going all out on one entrance means less defenders and more attackers.

And I say we attack tonight.

>>7032257
The idea with hitting one entrance in the middle of the night is to overwhelm it with superior firepower before reinforcements arrive and then take advantage of our superior close combat capabilities.

By spreading out we let the enemy make full use of their heavy guns and superior numbers.

Problem with the Zaku rush one entrance plan is that if the feddiess get lucky and see us coming they could retreat to the other two entrances and ambush us as we pursue them out. With the attack from multiple angles plan we could potentially drive them out into Jolyne's firing line (not a place I would like to be).

>>7032244

Your plan could still work. You replace the Hildolfr with the 3 J types (maybe jolyne too), armed with Magella's, you have them fire all of their leg rockets at one end of the base. Drawing their attention, then your squad attacks the other side, takes out the fortifications, and attacks from the rear.

On the other hand, a frontal assault would ensure more firepower in a single area, and strength in numbers. The downside would be the chance of enemy forces escaping when attacked.

I'd say we choose between these two plans and get on with it. I kind of wanted to finish this arc today.

>>7032257

This.

Also if we are waiting for the Hildorf, we could assault two of the entrances and have Hildorf and Jolyne covering third, picking off any feddies that might escape.

>>7032309
Toss a coin and get on with it, votes seem to be pretty evenly split between the ideas.

If our plan is to rush into the mine, we'll want shotguns. With a few bazookas for demolishing the adjacent rooms.

>>7032309

Uh, sorry to sound catty, I always get a little bitchy when I'm on painkillers.
Also, I can't just claim TO BE CONTINUED on this, because we wont be getting back onto the storyline until new years at the earliest. Next week I'm in Portsmouth, and the week after will be ZEONQUEST SPECIAL EDITION.

rolled 2 = 2

How about if this die roll is 1 we go with the rush, if it's 2 we go with the multiple entrances attack.

HOW ABOUT THIS FOR US TO FUCKING DO SOMETHING ALREADY

Most of our forces amass in the rear entrance, ready to rush in.

Jol and a few others long range attack/hopefully demolish one entrance. This distracts the enemy to there. We use the distraction to ZERG RUSH right on in, while Jol and her crew switch to watching the last entrance.

>>7032212

This plan but with Jol and 2 anon-zakus boosting onto mountain and using crackers to seal the other two entrances from (hopefully) above the enemy defenses?

If we wait for the Hidolfr, go with the multiple entrances. If not, Zaku Rush.

>>7032365

I like that plan, but it would be easier to collapse entrance with Hildorfs firepower.

>>7032335
>>7032335
>>7032335
>>7032335


dude

just flip a damn coin, we cant decide on plan, and we're going in tonight.

do it

Motherfucker.

I've been dealing with the nvlddmkm.sys bug for three days in a row now so i've missed Zeon quest for ages.

Running in safe mode is about as fun as a dropping bricks on your testicles.

On the note, just bomb the shit out of the mine.
Zeon has no need for tin.

>>7032459
>>7032459
wow you have missed abit,


the mine's empty of tin, full of feddies


and they're dug in deep

>>7032459
That was our first plan, but OP fiat/Zeon air forces being tied up, requires us to do it the old fashioned way.

>>7032365

Yeah, i'll support that. Looks okay, should work fine.

Give the long-range unit Magella Cannons, and us and Ruubens have Bazookas. Give Zol and one other guy Shotguns.

A 4/3 Numbers distribtion should work okay, shouldn't it?

(Also give Jo temporary command of her detatchment - we don't need chain-of-command shenannigans suffing things up.)

>>7032361
This counts.

You arm up your second Zaku Squad with long range Magella's and you all move out to attack the Mine. You decide to order the Hildolfr to drop early anyway. Just in case.

The sun is setting as you walk out into the desert, to Boatmurdered.

At some point along the walk you get close to Ruuben's MS and have a private conversation.
"So, why WERE you pretending to be man?" You ask.

"I come from Texas Colony, and well, we do things differently their. None of the recruitment officers were allowing women to sign up there. So I had to put on a fake mustache and pretend to be a man. Luckily there's no medical if you sign up from Texas Col so it was pretty easy from there. Of course I had to sign up with Engineering because the recruiter for that had the worst eyesight."

"He'd have to be fucking blind. Did NOBODY notice afterwards? Also, why keep wearing once you got to earth?"

"I just kept to myself mostly, I mean nobody every really paid to much attention to me you know. I had to keep pretending to be a man because TECHNICALLY it's illeagal to lie about your medical details..."

"But, surely the Depot Doctor?"

"Nope. Got lucky, no womens problems I guess"

"But showers!"

Essentially, Ruubens has been damn lucky to get put out to a podunk base here in Arizona, a proper military base would have seen through it fairly quickly.

You reach the Boatmurdered at midnight. You can see high, concrete towers with 180mm cannons in them on each entrance. They have lit up the general area with spotlights. There are also several mg nests. You can't see any enemy tanks or mobile suits.

YOU BEGIN THE PLAN.

>>7032459
No real air support is available, and a failed recon flight earlier leads us to believe they have heavy AA in place. Though we currently are debating whether or not to wait for the delivery of a Hidolfr artillery platform.

>>7032365
Sure.

>>7032521

Excellent.

whats zeon?

>>7032521
Awesome. It's action time at last!

About damn time.

>>7032581

It's becasue we're trying to fight a war by committee, really. I think we're living proof of how inefficient it really is.

check the feddie radio and then have the MA cannons and Jolene destroy the towers. THEN ZAKU RUSH!

>>7032610
>check the feddie radio

God damn I completely forgot we had this radio. Start scanning the frequencies on it and hope there's a low enough Minovsky density for us to pick up something.

ITS GOUFY TIME!

>>7032521

Aside from distracting the enemy. Jolyne's unit is also under orders to use their artillery to destroy the tunnel entrances if the enemy numbers start to get to large. After doing so they move to a different entrance and guard that from escaping enemies.

You three stealthily move up close to the western entrance and prepare for Jolyne to begin her attack. After about a minute you hear the explosions and thromps of rockets and 180mm shelling. Hopefully taking out the guard towers first.

You take this oppourtunity to attack.

You pop up out of cover and hit the first 180mm tower with your Bazooka, you don't wait to see if you successfully take it out and toss a smoke grenade.
The three of you then quickly charge the position. You hear the *thump* of the second guard tower firing randomly at you. Both you and Ruubens fire in the direction of the sound.

The smoke clears just as you reach the open entrance. The first Tower was destroyed by your Bazooka shot, the second one is showing battle damage but still functional.
It can't traverse sufficiently to track you however and Zolomon finishes it off by sticking his Shotgun in slit and firing.

You can still hear explosions from the other side of the base. There are currently no tanks visible down the corridor.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7032490

My PC'll run maybe ten minutes before 'Reset Timed out, failed to reinitiliase, 'nvlddmkm.sys' BSOD. I haven't been able to get on much.

And what'd be wrong with throwing a few nerve gas canisters or cracker grenades into that mine?

Dead feddies are always a good idea.

>>7032637
Biological weapons are outlawed under the Antarctic Treaty. Nothing against using crackers though.

Give orders to move up and do so.

>>7032636

Advance by fire, Shotgun at point, Bazookas behind.

As we get to each side room - Cracker grenade, Zol goes in with one of us covering him, and the other covering the corridor scetion ahead of us. Standard breach procedure.

>>7032636

Move up towards the entrance, have the feddie radio on to see if we can pick up any intel. Keep half an eye on Ruubens to see how she fights so we know her style for the purposes of strategy, she may be an apparent prodigy but we need to know any weaknesses that need fixing and strengths we can play to.

>>7032636
Finish up butchering any defenses at your current location, and advance into the mine.

>>7032713

>>7032636
Thumbnail looks like two gundamns carrying a Mexican Gundam between them.

MOVE IN, FIRE!

Shotguns up front, bazookas in back. Toss crackers into adjacent rooms. Move forward. Repeat. Fire. Fire. Blow shit up. etc

>>7032180
Woops, switching from other thread. Like I was saying A 300mm gun like what's on the Hidolfer could use indirect fire from atleast 50km out. (We have 155mm guns that can reach that range today)

The only real problem would be transmissing info back about shot placement which was what the aircraft at high altitude was for in.
>>7029544

>>7032802

Attack has already started, i'm afraid. We'll have to save our arty spam for another day.

>>7032864
That's why I suggested it 5 hours ago.

>>7032876
Zeonquest really is losing a lot of it's action.

>>7032886
>>7032886

OP is not railroading us, so its taking time for us to work shit out into options, then choosewhat we're doing -_-

You take standard breaching positions. You carefully look left and then right, using your finger camera to check each... well, according to the map, they used be haulage vehicle garages.
To look at the finger cam monitor, you have to push the Federation Radio out of the way, reminding you to turn it on.
(I totally forgot as well.)

It comes to life and you quickly tap in to federation chatter.

"... heavy fire! I say again! It looks like a squad of Zaku's with Arti guns! The defense towers have been taken out. They've got us ranged! Try to move to exit two and flank them!"

"Can anyone else raise Exit 1? I heard something about smoke and then nothing..."

You check your radio signal, it's pretty weak, but you try to signal to Jolyne to bring down the eastern exit and move on to the next one.

You manage to find and ambush four tanks before they're able to start up. A couple look like they were under repair, but it's better safe than sorry.

>>7032908

>>7032908

It doesn't help that we love debating our respective plans like so many armchair generals... Eh, It's fun either way.

>>7032908
>>7032886
Now that we're in command, David is meant to be making decisions like how to attack the base. Unfortunately, there are about 8-9 people in his head suggesting different things, and getting into agreement/consensus can be difficult.

>>7032886

to be fair I blame this on the new guy, so lets go ahead and hit on the new guy when we can for payback.

>>7032938
You reach the central shaft. It has been collapsed in. Several tanks spot you. You toss a cracker grenade into the middle killing a couple more, you dash out giving the rest of your squad freedom to move.
Things are hectic in the close quarters, you have to toss your Bazooka and pull out your sword. Tanks begin trying to pick their targets and their 150mm fire is hard to dodge.
You don't have time to check on the other two, and you dive into the fray, meleeing the tanks and trying to make yourself a moving target, but without exposing your back. You take a couple of strong hit's to the chest, but are saved when Zol buttons it with his 90mm Wrist Vulcan, you regain your balance and shank the tank.

You just manage to dive out of the way of incoming fire from another squad of tanks coming in from the northern passageway.

"Ruubens! Leg rockets down the Northern passageway!" You order, hoping she's in a position to fill it out as you block another 150mm blast with your shield. You leap on top of the tank and gun your thrusters, melting through it with your leg rockets and causing an ammo explosion.

The whoosh of leg rockets confirms Ruubens hearing your order. Then the entire area is blanketed in obscuring dust as Jolyne brings down the Eastern Exit.

KILLS
You: 6 Tanks
Zolomon: 6 Tanks
Ruubens: 7 Tanks
Jolyne: 3 Tanks

>>7032876
I'm sad we didn't do the on foot thing, it seemed like some people liked it. I think we've already devolved into the "Kill everything here and move on" posts.

>>7032886
>Zeonquest really is losing a lot of it's action.

Right now we're in a slight lull in the OYW where we are so it's mostly dealing with pockets of resistance and stuff in places that are now our territory but quite unsecured. We're going to be glad of these relatively quiet times once the Federation starts taking advantage of its massive resource advantage and starts throwing GMs and Balls at us like a swarm of hornets, of course by then we'll hopefully be on track for a Gelgoog or possibly a newtype mobile armour depending on how things go.

>>7032964
Uh.

Clear the mines, if there are any enemy forces left. Then search for anything of importance.

You retrieve your Bazooka and order everybody to move back into the tunnel and get in ambush positions.

SQUAD STATUS
You: Minor chest armour damage, Medium Shield Damage, slight damage to legs.
ZOLOMON: Several Hits to legs and upper torso. No serious damage.
RUUBENS: Severed Left arm cabling. Severed Right leg cabling. Leg Rockets Exhausted. Shoulder Shield heavily damaged.

Zolomon takes out another three tanks that attempt to pass by you before the dust settles. Afterwards you aren't attacked any further.

KILLS:
ZOLOMON: 3 TANKS

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7033052
Where are we on the map now?

We have to find those mobile suits, proceed to the center of the facility. Hopefully the mobile suits aren't ready yet, and don't know about the finger cam.

>>7033052
Damn noobs fucking up our zaku.

Move down the tunnel, room to room.

>>7033003
>Clear the mines, if there are any enemy forces left. Then search for anything of importance.

You want to to go east or west?

>>7033052
Continue through the facility, keeping an eye out for and MS, and an ear to the radio. That thing is our key to avoiding ambushes.

>>7033105

I Concur.

Make Ruubens the rearguard, since her mobility is limited by the severed cabling.

>>7033052

we need to reinforce Ruuben's zaku's armor, or get her a more agile suit and have her dodge all the time,

Make a fast sweep to whichever entrance is not currently covered by Jolyne so that nobody can escape out that way (might be destroyed but better to be safe than sorry) then hurry out to flush out any people by the last exit.

>>7033117

Let Jolyne's squad handle the defences at entrance A. That was the plan, wasn't it?

We should press on in to the base, keeping an eye on our backs.

>>7033117

lets head to zone B

>>7033117
East.

>>7033219
i concur

>>7033147

That'll be route B.

You can hear the mine shaking as she and her squad begins bombarding the last undamaged guard towers with long range fire, as you explore the other rooms.
The first appears to be another collapsed mineshaft, you can see tracks and huts from where the tanks and the men must have been sleeping.
You zoom in as you spot a heat source.

"Hey! Isn't that Plato?" Ruubens spots.

It is indeed, he is bruised and dirty, his hands are still handcuffed together, but he appears not to worse for the wear.
You check the area and pick him up. He appears to be shouting, you turn on the mike in your finger.

"THEY HAVE FIVE MOBILE SUITS!"

This is NOT really what you want to hear.

"Where!?" You quickly ask.

"NOT HERE! AFTER..."

"You can speak normally, there's a mike beside your foot."

"Oh, thanks. When my plane crashed, I managed to bail out at the last minute. Unofrtunately they caught me. I guess lightning doesn't strike twice huh? Anyway, once they knew that we knew where they were, they were going to stage a full assault on the Depot. The tank commander said no because he had a company still in the shop, so the leader of the MS Unit. Sermovente or something, went alone! He's gone to attack the base by dawn! They've been observing our patrol patterns for months! They know that around 5 is when our patrol pattern is weakest! What they didn't know would be that you'd mount an attack so fast!"

"We've got to get back!"

YOUR ORDERS? REMEMBER THERE MAY STILL BE ENEMY FORCES HIDING IN THIS MINE.

>>7033287
ffffffffffff

>>7033219
this

>>7033287
Zeon's fury! Begin heading out the same way as you came, as cautiously as you can. Pick up our down man as well, never leave a man behind and all that jazz.

Warn our brothers and sisters outside about what's going on as soon as we can, and tell them to start heading back towards the depot.

>>7033287
What time is it now? Let's get Plato out and collapse the last entrance once we're out. Then, skeedadle back to the 67th depot to warn them.

>>7033287

Have the artillery zakus destroy the exits to the base while we run back to base. I have a felling we'll be seeing a slot machine when we get back.

>>7033287
>>7033287
>>7033287
>>7033287

time to leave as fast as we can, try to cave in what ever we can.
make this a tomb. no, a monument to Zeon's unyeilding, unrelentless strength


SEIG ZEON!!!!

FUCK

Order Jol and her squad to finish what they're doing and return to base ASAP. Use their range to take out any enemies they see.

If they spot a zaku, don't take chances. If they won't confirm ID, blow them away.

We need to finish our sweep of this mine as soon as we can and get back to base ourselves.

>>7033287

Okay. Firesweep to the remaining exit.

Then, form up the entire force and fast-track back and hit the enemy MS's from behind as they're attacking the Depot.

We can let Plato get out in a jeep or something, and as long as the defences are down the remaining guerillas here will proablbly surrender or scatter.

We can come back and trash this place later.

That's probably best.

Seal up the mine, we all return to base. We can return here later and see what's to find.

>>7033333
>>7033342
>>7033348
>>7033356
>>7033365
>>7033366

Wow, I think that's the quickest we'eve ever come to a consensus. Albeit acidentally...

>>7033395
Maybe it's working under pressure.

>>7033287

The time is 12:30.

If you run, you could make it back by 5 am. Which will be about dawn.

You dash outside and order Jolyne to collapse her entrance. Hefitng your bazooka, you do the same to yours.

You then hoof it back to base. Radio range is still retarded due to minovsky density, hopefully it will thin out on the run.

Meanwhile, inside the base. The twenty engineers discover that they are trapped inside, they attempt to escape but fail, causing a cave in that collapses a large part of the mine on their heads.

This time, Boatmurdered spares no one.

ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED

Urgh god this is the worst time possible for Ruubens to have severe damage to the cabling on one of her legs. There's no way she'll be able to keep up in a rush to the base like that.

>>7033287
god dammit, the Hidolfer is going to land in the middle of an ambush! I knew we should have waited for it. Our entire force would have been at base to deal with the feddies.

>>7033429

She can run reasonably fine, it'll be jumping that you'll notice the lack of power and heat management.
Unfortunately, there is still a slight drop in running speed yes.

You and Ruubens could try a field repair, though it would take time and be very basic.

>>7033434

What's done is done, etc.

Admittedly, A Hidolfr plus two Zaku Is might be a decent match for 5 Zaku I/IIs.
That said, we should move as fast as possible back there.

If anyone has taken leg damage, don't wait for them. Odds of an ambush are low, and we need to make best speed possible.

>>7033428
What engineers?

>>7033469
>You and Ruubens could try a field repair, though it would take time and be very basic.

If this wouldn't delay us too much I think this is worth it, she's an able mechanic and it would be useful to pick up a few skills in that area ourselves.

>>7033469

No time. Let's just leg it at everyone's fastest pace. If even just us in the Gouf get there in time to flank the attack, it'll tip the balance.

Just realized: we have to make fun of "Ruubens" by getting a print of a Rubens painting, shooping her head onto the model (and maybe restyling a bit to make it fit in) and then delivering the result to her as a gift from the squad.

I mean, I can kind of comprehend her Polly Oliver routine. But what in the fuck made her think that "Ruubens" was a good first name?

>>7033483

The Feddie ones needed to maintain 5 Zakus and a ton of tanks, presumably.

>>7033519
>But what in the fuck made her think that "Ruubens" was a good first name?

Whatever made her decide it is now her squad nickname for eternity.

>>7033490

Not too much. Essentially, if you can't do it by 15 minutes, then you can't do anything. Luckily, the cables are designed to be fixed easily in the field.
You manage to disconnect the broken connecter and stretch the remainder together.
It's sort of hard to explain. Basically you re-attatch the leg cable, but it's a little shorter, and it doesn't work QUITE as fast as it used to.

The day when they stary internalising this things the better.

Her running speed is now up to standard, though her jumping is a little bit below everyone elses.

TIME LOST: 12 MINUTES

You quickly continue on your way, Plato is shoved into Zolomon's cockpit, as yours is fulled with junk and stuff.

This would have been a good time for our AWAC's to laser com the base.

>>7033515
We move out first at top speed. The rest follow.

We can at least distract those five long enough to keep them from completely trashing the base, and at top speed we might even be able to catch up to those enemy Zakus before they have too much time to fuck shit up.

Trade our shield with somebody who has an undamaged one and then we go in at top speed, sword and board, leave no Feddie alive.

>>7033537
My question is how did she think just wearing a false mustache would work? Everyone around her would have to be blind! If we could tell from just that picture, imagine meeting her a couple of times in the cafeteria or hallway. You'd notice in 5 seconds.

But perhaps I'm thinking about this too much.

>>7033574

Run like the wind, bullseye! etc.

>>7033602
They just thought she was the protagonist from a different Gundam show.

Exhibit A: Quatre from Wing.
Exhibit B: the main character from Turn A
Exhibit C: Tieria from 00

And I'm sure there's more.

But we book it at our Gouf's top speed and let the Zakus catch up.

Did we leave anything at all to defend the base, or did all of the suits come with us?

>>7033602

This is a universe where a legendary pilot can go unrecognized simply through swaping a mask for a pair of sunglasses. A fake mustache is practically a genderswap-operation for around here.

>>7033602
She did say she went to the recruiter with the worst eyesight. Presumably nobody in the engineering corps was straight-laced enough to care anyway. I certainly can't imagine anyone at that depot ratting her out for brownie points or anything.

>>7033428
>>7033428
bitchin. lets leg it, only stop if your zakkie starts to redline

You quickly run hell for leather back to the base. Unfortunately the Minovsky density fails to drop any lower. You bring it up with Ruubens.

"Yeah, it's because we've got a southerly wind. Somewhere down in middle america there was this MASSIVE minovsky discharge caused by some kind of experimental combat emmiter. Panama I think. Anyway, all of the minovsky particles it spread keep getting blown up across the area whenever we get a southern wind. In fact it accounts for about 50% of all the particles we get up here. Makes you think huh?"

"Uh, yeah."

At half four the sun is beginning to come up, in the dusk you have to rely on infra red. You still can see anything. Furthermore you are still half an hour away from the base.

>>7033638

There's a pair of Zaku Is there, but they won't last long on their own. If the Hidolfr has landed already, then they have a fighting chance, I suppose.

>>7033664

Oops, I think we broke America. Heh.

>>7033664

It wasn't our fault.We are soldiers, we can blame our war crimes on our CO

>>7033669
It's a prototype sent to us for field testing. The chances of everything in it working right first try under combat conditions? Not so good.

And to make matters worse, one of those Zakus we have is probably being piloted by Gabriel. He may already have blown the damn thing up.

>>7033664
>At half four

Do you mean Four Thirty? Or does that mean Three thirty? I never understood that particular wording for times. Like you hear people from certain places say "a quater of three" does that mean quarter past or quarter to?

>>7033664
I can only imagine her reaction when we share that story with her.

>>7033696
>>7033715
>>7033718
Wait, that was us from back in Mastodon? When we blew up the Rotor Mond?

>>7033740

If the depot survives this, we're spending a night at a bar watching battleroms of our old fights.
Consider it the Lister squad initation.

>>7033771
No it was the Loki when it's reactors went super-critical.

>>7033721
>>7033721
>>7033721

half four = half past four = 4.30am

>>7033664

In infrared you see a distant plume of flame descend from the sky.

"Fuck! That's the Komusai with the Hildolfr! It's making it's drop! They must have pushed it and made the it early!"

"Screw it! Everyone begin leapfrogging!" you order.

You jump up, and in the distance you can now see the base. Black smoke rises up from it.
As do the flashes of light from battle.
SOMEONE'S still fighting at least.

The journey takes a further 15 minutes. You land on what was supposed to be the test area for the Hildolfr, and are greeted to a scene of carnage.
Destroyed Zaku parts lie everywhere, smoke and carnage, craters wider than your Zaku and death across the field.

In the middle is the Hildolfr, a single 120mm sized hole in it's cockpit.

Leaning up against it, is a one legged Zaku I, there are holes in it's legs and arms, but it still manages to raise a gun against you.

It then trades the security password.

"Sir, I would like to inform you that your test areas make mean decoy fields." says Gabriel Zola.

"Zola with a sense of humour? It must be brain damage." Ruubens notes.

All the while the dead Hildolfr leads beaten but not defeated awash with the colours of the rising sun.

>>7033787
Bleh, got the names mixed up.

>>7033805
>In the middle is the Hildolfr, a single 120mm sized hole in it's cockpit.

FFFFFFFFFFFFF

>>7033805
So...we won? There's nobody left for us to kill?

>>7033805
...any enemy units remaining?

And they can repair that hole right? I mean, it doesn't mean the Hildolfr is dead forever, right?

>>7033805
>>7033805
oh...oh damn...experimental equipment. damaged on our watch......*whistle inoccently*

>>7033805
Motherfucker.

>>7033805

Heheheheh Oh wow.

Well, the tech battalion is either going to be happy with live-fire test data, or incredibly pissed that we let it get damaged like that.

>>7033805

congratulate him, lets see who else is alive.

seeing this we just might start our own little midnight fenrier

>>7033805
>In the middle is the Hildolfr, a single 120mm sized hole in it's cockpit.

Good night, sweet, crazy artillery man. Though we hardly knew ye, you will not be forgotten.

>>7033805
Damn, I think that kind of badassery should warrant a second though about accepting him into our squad as well as Arronax.

>>7033857
Indeed! Congratulate him for not self destructing his Zaku, also see if we can reccomend him for a Medal.

>>7033867
Especially since Jolyne is getting the damn thing once we put in a fresh cockpit.

>>7033867
what was his name again?....

One more Baddas recruit and we'll have enough for two full-strength teams to lead.

...Can we lead two teams?

>>7033877
Yeah, if he actually has a sense of humor in there and can be weaned away from his propaganda-spewing, he could be useful after all.

>>7033805
Head back to base, check for survivors. Report what happened to HQ.

Did the Komusai that brought Hildorf down make it?

>>7033883
His name is not important, only his drunken, self-loathing essence must not be forgot.

>>7033896
We're recruiting Plato.

We just give him something expendable, let him go out to scout, and then wait for him to come back with useful info after he gets shot down.

>>7033805

The 68th Depot although damaged, is not totally destroyed. The two Zaku 1's with your training were able to kite them into the test area, where your training targets acted as decoys, and they were able to keep the enemy occupied until the Hildolfr arrived. Unofrtunately, without doing a proper shakedown, the Hild lacked accuracy and was only able to accurately target close or stationary targets.
It sill managed to account for four of the enemy mobile suits. The other Zaku 1 managing to take the last out in a mutually assured destruction scenario.

The acquired test data is collected by the 603rd squadron and they leave via Komusai back into space. The Hildolfr's performance apparently is deemed worthy of re-evaluation, and since the damage to it was relatively minor (aside for a big hole in the cockpit).

NEW MOBILE ARMOUR ACQUIRED: YMT-05 HILDOLFR

TO BE CONTINUED.

>>7033848
"So how are you liking that Hildolfr we sent you guys? Pretty awesome right? Got any tasty combat data on it for us?"

"Oh... oh yeah, we got it. It's... it's pretty awesome all right. It may have, uh, landed in a bit of a hot zone though, and may have gotten a bit damaged."

"A bit damaged? What do you mean?"

"It, uh, may have a bit of, um, it may have caught a bit of fire from some enemy suits."

"Oh, well, that doesn't sound so bad. Where was it hit? Just some paint chipped, right? Right?"

"...There may be a 120mm hole where the cockpit should be. Sirs."

"..."

"Sirs?"

"SPLIT YOUR LUNGS WITH BLOOD AND THUNDER."

>>7033917
"...so, Jolyne. Have you considered trading up?"

>>7033914

in an enemy tank, jet, helicopter, MS, hell anything really.

>>7033914
We could keep them as a reserve/support squad. Put Jolyne and her arty zaku with a comm vehicle and a scout vehicle and put Ruubens on the front line with Zol and us.

>>7033917

NAICE! Moster Tank GET!

>>7033949
Hell, we could airdrop him in a bicycle with a parachute attached.

>>7033917

>NEW MOBILE ARMOUR ACQUIRED: YMT-05 HILDOLFR

HILDOLFR FUCK YEAH!

>>7033957
You meant to say "Jolyne in her FUCKHUGE mobile armor", right?

>>7033917

Nice. More toys to play with.

>Prince of Zeon

Shit, we're going to have to protect Garma from Char now, aren't we?

>>7033985
Oh, of course. In essence, the H is half a zaku with treads and a massive gun.

But yeah, we could be set up for fairly independent operating.

Oh, don't forget to hit on Ruubens this evening when we show our tapes.

>NEW MOBILE ARMOUR ACQUIRED: YMT-05 HILDOLFR

AWWWWW HERE IT GOES

>>7034005

who knows we might be able to side with the rightful heir to Zeon and win the war after all.

>>7033917
Awesome. So we'll be having a Very Special Christmas episode of Zeonquest the week after next?

>>7034019
Nah. Have Jolyne hit on Ruubens. Bet something to get her to do it. It will be hilarious, and also a great icebreaker.

>>7033917
>Next Episode...
>Prince of Zeon

Hello, hello. What have we here?

>>7034024
You mean, side with Char?

Fuck that, we're prying "Sayla Mass" out of White Base and making HER the heir to Zeon!

>>7034054

I'm ok with this.

>>7034047
You forgot your Lando.

Thread up and archived in the usual place.

Now remember:

No thread next week I'll be at my Nan's

The week afterwards is Christmas day. No Zeonquest on the friday.
But for Boxing Day and the 27th: ZEONQUEST SPECIAL

Who could THAT be about I wonder?

>realise that given the times given in the posts we would have made it to the battle 12 minutes earlier if I hadn't said to give Ruubens' Zaku a patch job and we would have been able to possibly save the Hidolfr's pilot.

David Lister needs to gather the squad and have a quiet drink in the man's honour

>>7034042
"You make for a pretty cute boy, your not bad as a girl either."

>>7034086
Fuck, and one of the Zaku pilots too.

>>7034024
>>7034054
What if we could get Char and Garma to 'team up' as it were? I mean I'm sure Garma has no idea what happened.

>>7034079

Wolfgang Strauss. More like Santa Strauss, am I right.

>>7034086
I vote no to the quiet drink.

Irish wake for both the dead Zaku pilot and the dead tank guy. There's enough to be somber about in war already, let's at least send the dead out with a bang.

>>7034105

It is currently April. Char won't even be on earth until September. You'll have other things to worry about before then.

>>7034079
"We're...we're getting the Sazabi as a present? From the future?

It's just what I've always wanted! Thank you, Santa Strauss!"

So if i've tallied right, we have:

David Lister - Gouf Prototype
Zolomon Ringo - Desert-Type Zaku II
Jolyne - Zaku II Cannon
Ruubens - Zaku IIJ "El Muerto Gigante"
Gabriel Zola - Zaku I
no pilot - Hidolfr Mobile Armour

We need repairs, another pilot, and maybe an upgrade for Zola's Zaku I. Otherwise, We're doing pretty well.

Whatever side we choose, try and avoid being against guys like Ral or Packard unless we have to.

Too many manly tears if we have to fight.

>>7034150
I like this idea better, get the squad absolutely hammered and see who can hold their drink the best.

>>7034174
Plato is the other pilot. We stick him in the Zaku I, put Jolyne in the Hildolfr, and then either put Gabriel in the Zaku II Cannon or put him in our old Zaku IIJ and put Elaine in the Zaku II Cannon.

Or we leave Gabby in the Zaku I and put Plato into the Zaku II Cannon, leaving Elaine in "El Muerte Gigante" and Jolyne in the Hildolfr. I like this option. Just put Plato into something expendable when we want him to do some scouting.

>>7034152
>>7034152

good story OP

>>7034181
Actually, just for fun, we need to team up with Ral and Packard at least once. All three of us in our custom Goufs.

The Federation will shit a brick large enough to rebuild eastern Australia.

I just wanted to say that this looked really shit at first, but I now regret not having participated.

Good show, OP.

>>7034210

Plato in the Zaku I if we want him for expendable scouting. Less of a loss than the Limited-run cannon or the custom El Muerto.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=zeonquest
Vote for the threads guys. None of the December ones have gotten above 10.

>>7034245
Yeah, good point. So Gabby gets Jolyne's old suit when she trades up to the YMT-05.

Plato in the Zaku I for now, Jolyne in the Hidolfr, Gabby in the Zaku Cannon (he seems more a ranged man) and Ruubens in the Muerto imo.

Also should consider getting the Muerto resprayed or whoever pilots it is going to be in danger of getting a Feddie newtype ace up in their shit.

>>7034255

Someone's been downvoting them. Probably the same ones who've been trolling the start of each december thread.

>>7034278
Good point.

Of course, if we wanted to do something completely insane, we could go back to our old suit (keeping the heat saber, I guess?) and give Elaine the Gouf.

Al praise the great old ones!

Cthulhu Fatgn.

>U.C. 0079.05.09
>The Federation's Semovente corps destroys the 67th Supply Depot in Arizona.

OH SHIT GUYS, LOOKS LIKE WE CHANGED "HISTORY"!

>>7034347
>>7034347
>>7034347

FUCK YEAH

David Lister uses empathy!

He must know that Ruuben is probably aware of >>7034086 this thought. Let's see if it effects her, she's killed people, but maybe she's never indirectly caused our won people to die. Try and find out her feelings.

>>7034347
Wait, we did?

WOO! What effect will that have on things, I wonder?

>>7034244
I'm thinking that I'm going to be saying much the same. I wasn't interested since I never watched Gundam ever, but I'm just about interested enough now to read through the massive archive backlog. As a token of good faith I'll go and toss a vote at the December ones, and maybe some of the ones before that.

>>7034347

Gentlemen.

*Smokes cigar*

>>7034347
I'm a bit unclear on my early UC history, can someone explain to me what we changed here and how we changed it. (I'm assuming it's something involving MS IGLOO)

>>7034365
Obviously, if she hasn't realized this, we don't point it out. Because that would be a dick move.

Assuming it has, we deal with it by throwing the Irish wake and knocking back enough drinks to make their ghosts drunk in the afterlife. And, you know, giving her the "shit happens, and life goes on" speech and stuff. For us too, since as commander that decision was our responsibility.

>>7034255

Well come on. The last four are all from this weekend. That's normal.

Interestingly, one more vote for thread one and it changes colour. Ah, I remember when all of the threads were a proud shade of Zeon Green...

>>7034401

This is an AU that stems from one relatively minor occurance.
Namely, that this thing: The Jormagund Super Particle Cannon... thing, does not exist.

Instead of testing it out at the battle of Loum. The 603rd squadron tested the Loki particle emmitter instead.

Thanks to your efforts this is causing the universe to drift ever further off canon.

>>7034402
Naturally, I meant to infer from how she's acting, hence "empathy"

>>7034484
Google is pulling up zip on this thing. What did it appear in?

>>7034484
>Thanks to your efforts this is causing the universe to drift ever further off canon.

Things I know for a fact it's caused:
Strauss was assigned to the part of Loum to protect the Musai's there instead of the Jormagand. As a result his fighting skill was not observed directly by Dozle, and he was not made Shin Matsunaga's wingman.
Instead he is assigned as our CO for Operation Elephant.

The Loki improved the survival rate of Mastodon Battalion. Originally the entire force would have been so depleted that it would have to retreat back into space.
Instead we defeated the Mexican army and destroyed this Land Battleship.
As a result it will not take part in the Battle of Odessa

Reduced the amount of time it takes to develop beam weapons by over 2 weeks. This will increase the number of Gelgoogs developed. It also effects the development time of the Pezun Project.

Captured and early Guntank prototype, Zeon is more cautious of Federation efforts in this area.
Saved the 67th depot, saved most of their Zakus
Gabrial Zola from AoZ is for some reason stationed at the Depot. I still haven't worked out why yet.

>>7034570

MS IGLOO. You've been encountering a LOT of stuff from IGLOO. Unfortunately the IGLOO curse appears to be fully operational, so if ANYONE tries to assign you to the 603rd as a test pilot SHOOT THEM IN THE FACE AND ESCAPE OUT OF THE WINDOW: IT'S YOU OR HIM.

>>7034579
Well I have no idea why Zola is important, but God damn if we don't pull off some amazing shit.

DONT FORGET, WE ALSO GOT ZEON SOME INTEL ON NEWTYPES.

So basically if we keep this up as we are then the war will be almost unrecognisable compared to the original as we get towards the end. Awesome.

If when this quest inevitably finishes it would fit with the story I would quite fancy a AEUG/Titans/NeoZeon/whateverrandomfactionourbutterflyeffectcausestoexist Quest, I'm enjoying this lots.

>>7034639
Maybe a faction led by David Lister and Zolomon Ringo after we become disillusioned by both sides of the war.

>>7034612

He's not really. He's the designated antagonist from Advance of Zeta.
Which is essentially TITANQUEST in canon form. So as a result he had limited amount of plot armour, but not too much since this is an AU.

If people are interested, I can do some more livestreams of the original gundam series or 08th MS team.

You can probably find links in old threads, or just look up zeonquest. I'll probably turn on the channel in like 10 minutes after I am done burning some stuff to CDs. If i get a few people in, Ill sh ow some shows.

The longer this quest goes on the more I realise that the 08th MS team were actually pritty terrible MS pilots.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2iej8_08th-ms-team-action-radius-amv_creation

In my opinion Packard would have been able to kill all of them if not rushed for time trying to kill the Guntanks.

>>7034692
Norris wasn't that great an ace, his opposition was just poor.

>>7034653

To be honest with you, I'm not going to create a faction that hasn't made it into Gihren's Greed in this.

Anyway, I'm off to bed. As I think were getting pretty close to autosaging a *second* thread.

>>7034692
>The longer this quest goes on the more I realise that the 08th MS team were actually pritty terrible MS pilots.

They weren't terrible, they were just fairly average (except for Shiro's invinciball madness), usually in Gundam we mostly see things from the PoV of aces or people well on the way to being aces, whereas the only person on that level in 08th was Norris Packard. And yes he probably would have managed to kill them all if he hadn't had other priorities to kill the Guntanks instead.

The 08th MS team were pretty much the kind of grunts that last for a while against Amuro but don't really do a whole lot of damage to him before he takes them out.

>>7034692

They aren't bad, considering their experiance and age group. It's just, in a setting with Newtypes, they are pretty second rate.

Packard is an above average Oldtype Ace for Zeon though.

>>7034709
I never said he was great, he was just a good example of a typical Zeon Ace MS pilot. It's just that there were so few left that late in the war it just made him seem even more skilled.

>>7034579
>and destroyed this Land Battleship.

What's so important about this LB, other than the fact that it looks fuckawesome?

>>7034689
>>7034689
>>7034689
>>7034689


cant find it dude, link?

>>7034768

Nothing. But it WAS there at the Battle of Odessa, now it won't be. So that's three stupidly heavy caliber guns less to worry about.

>>7034768
Nothing special but if it was there and it's not going to be any more it means the Federation is going to have a tougher fight.

Of course it's possible that with that not there they might chose to direct a few more forces leaving somewhere else weakened, with the butterfly effect in full swing it's impossible to predict anything specific now except for "Amuro will pilot the RX-78-2 and Char will be his rival"

>>7034795
Okay. I actually like that model of LB more than the Big Try because it has a realistic amount of smaller caliber point defense guns. So that you can do more than have it sit back and lob shells. And all three main guns can be fired forwards.

>>7034786

Last time i posted a direct link, it didn't end well for me.

Ill just say go to /zeonquest

There won't be many people in yet, cause my attempts to burn somthing are not ending very well.

But after these damn CDs burn, i will start it up with some shows as requested.

I fully support the idea of having Plato and Gabriel join our little group.

Now, the other thing we still need to work out is whether Zolomon really is a Newtype.

Or whether we are.

Or for that matter whether Elaine is; she did switch off her targeting computer, so she might be using the Force instead.

>>7035004
I think that was more a case of leading a moving target.

>>7034840
It gives us an opportunity to upstage Midnight Fenrir.

By the way, a couple of things:

Do we call David's original Zaku II "El Muerte Grande" or "El Muerte Gigante", because I've seen both names used.

If we're sticking with "El Muerte Grande" may I suggest giving the other name to Jolyne's Hidolfr. I'm thinking about us possibly giving our group a "theme" later on. I'm thinking a mastodon skeleton for our groups insignia.

Also, doe Zolomon have his own pilot's insignia, yet? Because it should totally be a pair of crossed heathawks/axes. Or a skull AND cross-axes.

>>7035082
Well, probably.

Also, Weird Newtype Nakedspace would be a lot more disconcerting if one of our subordinates shows up in it, and she's also naked.

...what the fuck am I saying? That would be awesome! Although realistically romance is a horrible idea here; aside from the whole "we outrank the love interest" issue there'd also be the "love interests die horribly in Gundam shows" issue.

>>7035191
Please, can it be "La Gran Muerte" at least? The not-Spanish is killing me.

>>7035214
To be fair, it's not like our character can speak Spanish, at all.

Though someone pointing out our incorrect grammar later on would be nice.

>>7035214
Bah, let's get rid of the Spanish all together and go with the French "La Grande Morte".

>>7035191
Instead of the Mastodon, why not do WHITE WHALE HOLY GRAIL as our group's insignia?

>>7035287
I prefer "La Petite Morte" instead.

Although maybe we should give that callsign to Gabby or Elaine's suit instead.

>>7035287
The reason why we have the bad Spanish is because we made Ace making our way up the southern part of North America.

It's a reminder of glorious rise.

>>7035308
I'm thinking Elaine for "The small death."

>>7035346
So am I. We get to be the big death, and we give her the little one. And both of us enjoy this immensely.

Jolyne and Zolomon would also make an interesting pair; I propose that if it looks like there's even the remotest chance in hell of it happening we spend a bit of our spare time making that happen.

>>7035411
And so the shipping began. Of course, there would always be those who would refuse to follow the canon pairs, going for more unconventional ships like JolyneXGabriel and OokawaraXElaine.

But none were as intolerable as those who tried to force the ListerXZolomon ship. Indeed, it took an announcement from the series creator himself to finally stop the constant flame wars. And even then, in the darkest recesses of the seedier forums, you might still find a few people continuing to support their chosen pair.

>>7035411
I'm not sure if it's a good idea to try anything that might jeopardize unit cohesion.

Besides, do you really want to condemn our bro to to the same fate as Jolyne's previous squad mates?

>>7035493
Of course, the fact that at least some of the fangirls can be fooled into thinking we took the gay option will help.

There was a reason we kept that fake mustache, you know.

>>7035524
We're all her squad mates now, so I don't see how setting up Zolomon with Jolyne makes him any more likely to die horribly than the rest of us.

>>7035524
Matchmaker episode!

>>7035535
Hahhaha!

>>7035546
I'm talking about the guys who got their asses kicked because they couldn't take a hint. She knows Muay Thai, y'know.

>>7035562
Ends in Jolyne kicking your ass and getting another count of insubordination. But really more humilitaing for you since you get beat by a girl.

>>7035570
And Zolomon is our go-to guy for CQC in the field. We just assign Jolyne to start teaching him some fighting skills with the idea that he can apply them to his suit in combat. With a bit of care and some gentle nudges, the whole thing will develop naturally from there.

>>7035765
Brilliant!

Man, it would really suck if our new teammate finds out what happened to the Texas colony.

>>7035839
Refresh my memory. What did happen to it?

>>7035493

read that in the voice of the DOW announcer

>>7035854
It's rendered inhospitable due to some weather changing dickery by someone Then Amuro and Char fuck it up bigtime.

>>7035882
Well, we're in May. I don't think that Amuro's scheduled to hop into the Gundam until September.

>>7035900
An abandoned space colony, located at the devastated Side 5. Originally created for recreation and raising livestock, the Texas colony is damaged at the start of the One Year War, locking its mirrors in place and creating a never-ending high noon. By the time the White Base arrives here, the Texas colony has become a barren desert. [Gundam]

By the way, we need to make sure everyone's got backup weapons in case we need to do another mission on foot.

Especially Plato. He'll be a go to guy for these types of things.

>>7036298
>our go to guy