In our last episode after getting the full briefing of the enemy MS squads in this area who are causing so much havok, you draw out and kill their nightfighting specialist in a frantic midnight battle.

After setting the infantry which you had taken with you on patrol, your team of 7 had hunkered down for the night.

The morning passes without incident, and you are awoken at 7pm by your computers alarm clock.

As you make your checks to make sure than nothings frozen over in the night, you get a short rang radio message from an infantryman at your feet. It seems he want's to talk to you.

Observations from the last fight:

The 440mm rocket launcher is able to damage (with multiple hits even destroy) lunar titanium armoured MS.

The hammer gun has sufficient power to knock them about but its capabilities to do actual damage to them are unproven.

Mobile infantry scouts as an integrated element of a MS unit are king. (Königin der waffen Zeonic infantry - or something like that.)

>>8836595
Who dares disturb my slumber! I'll crush you like an ant you pathetic, groveling, son of I'm just fucking with you. Morning! What's up?

Let's try this again

>Use on board sensors to scan for all nearby moose
>Cross-reference moose locations with maps, note geography and transit systems
>Use computer to calculate predictive moose movement and direction
>Up-link with satellite targeting network
>Lock on to all moose about to cross roads
>Arm missile servos
>Fire!

Canada is saved!

>>8836595
Talk to him.

In the neighbouring thread there was a suggestion of returning the corpse - or at least an empty coffin - of Night to the Federation. I think that's a nice touch. It fits in with the way Bandit and Lister have been treating each other in the past.

You open your communications channel to him to see what he wants.

"We think we found what happened to Foxbat last night sir." He informs you.

"This morning during one of our patrols around the northern lakes we found hovercraft tracks leading from the lake..."

"It was parked next to it in camo?" you ask.

"Uh no sir, we believe it was fully submerged on the lake base, using a snorkel for air."

You blink.

"Can they DO that?" You ask incredulously.

The solider shrugs.

"Probably not very well, I'd imagine they were plugging leaks with duct tape all night, but better a few drips of water than rockets I guess."

"Did you get any idea on where they were heading?"

"Back to the federal lines, and they probably left around 3 at night, when the snow and visiblity was at it's worst, which means they've long since reached their destination."

No friendly forces have come to relieve you, and in all the rush to mount up, you don;t know if they were supposed to or not.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>8836716
OPEN FIRE! IT'S MOOSE SEASON!

We NEED to commandeer that V from the Gundam G-type we took out. Elaine scored the kill, so she gets it if she wants it, otherwise it goes on the Act Zaku ASAP. Monoeye gundam-alike, here we come!

>>8836631

I'm not sure, but I think the near constant gloom, cold and snow caused by colony fragment hits might have done the job already. I'm no Moose specialist though.

>>8836706
It's dangerous, but it is interesting.

The devious side of me wants to put a tracking device or something in it, but they're probably to smart for that and I don't want Lister to look like a moron and a dick.

>>8836716
Try to get a message off to the commander, see how things are going. Also, tell him of our great success, and plans to take the fight to the enemy. With their night specialist out of the way, we're on more even footing, and can stage our own nighttime attacks.

>>8836716
Do we have any time to train or can we barrow any MS from the troops stationed there?

Reguardless, the first MS squad seems to operate in twos, it'd be a good idea to find the two and instead go for the other one

>>8836753

Also, with all of the minovsky particles in the air, how would you even be able to track a homing device?

We gently rib on Elaine about how Moose are bigger than deer...

:D

>>8836741
Turn it into a mustache for her mobile suit.

>>8836787
HAHAHA oh god its glorious

>>8836776
Well, it would probably have to be some kind of active sonar ping, but like I said, they'll see that right off the bat and we look like a moron.

Send some infantry back with Elaine and the gundam parts to send them back to california. (You want the lunarium that survived on Garma robot ASAP) Also get her to bring ammo and supplies I suppose.

>>8836787
Brilliant!
>>8836780
Also this

I wish we would mass produce Big Zam. Imagine an entire team of big zams

>>8836761
>Try to get a message off to the commander, see how things are going. Also, tell him of our great success, and plans to take the fight to the enemy. With their night specialist out of the way, we're on more even footing, and can stage our own nighttime attacks.

Unfortunately, with all of the minovsky particles in the way, the best way to get in contact with Captain Salinca would be to move back to base, or try to meet up with the other picket groups on this flank (to the north and to the south)

In theory if you had a Dodai, you could simply flie out of the particle zone and call in, but you don't.

>>8836787

How can you wear a mustache... if you don't have a face?

>>8836825
Someday Anon, someday.

We send a messenger back to our lines to call for a unit to relieve us. Also we warn them that a Federal reprisal attack against this position might be coming.

After we're out of here, we redeploy to the other side of the Federation advance, to target their other MS team. Better to reduce both of the teams early on, instead of leaving one at full strength and operating unhindered.

so our plan is to sit and wait for them to attack us and just hope they go one by one?

That's a dumb idea, but given the conditions and the tanks sonar abilities...it really is all we've got

>>8836716
So they know we're here.
...
Fffffuuuuuuuuuuuuu.

Oh well, time to abandon the picket, report to base camp, and tell the commander what's up. We'll need to move to engage one of the enemy squads of 3.

>>8836837
Hard work and guts.

In any case, going back to base does seem like a good idea but only after we've seen, fought or killed more of the Eight. When there, we can rest, repair and check in on everyone (Even Garma) before going back out.

>>8836837
Shit. Okay. Um, why didn't we ask whether or not we'd be relieved come the morning? Oh! Ask the infantry. I'm sure they know how this kind of thing goes. If we're expecting replacements, we'll wait. If they're really really late... they might have been taken out.

>>8836837
keep the V-fin around, and when she gets an MS with a face, spring it on her as a surprise.

Loot the scrapped enemy mech. We want that armor.

>>8836837
In favor of the coffin/memorial thing to Night and any other of the Eights we take out.

Suppose we ordered 8 coffins to be built, a la
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlI3DCytJ1E

>>8836855
Well yeah, why the fuck would they send the MS?


they knew a squad was in a picket we knew they knew. Its important that they don't know we have sonar and out MS capabilities, I'm sure he saw that those were heavy MS's compaired to the usual and able to take down one of their suits but they don't know anything else

>>8836844
>>8836814

So send a squad of Mech Inf back to base to get further orders, maybe get some air transport out of here?

Do you want Elaine to take some salvage back or not. Keep in mind that Night pretty much got torn to pieces, you have severed arms, legs, heads a various other pieces across the battlefield.

Well like I said get Elaine and the infantry back to base to report and send back the gundam part to California. Bring back supplies and get the dodai here and assault their base. We are Lister we should be able with Zolomon and Elaine to drop on the left flank and kill MS/infantry/tanks there.

>>8836837
Loot the beam rifle, and any surviving bits of the enemy gundam. We'll need that shit. ask the infantry if we'll get releived any time soon, and if not, send a team of 3 suits (unsure who) back to base to ask for some replacements.

We'll need to attack the other side some time soon, I think.

>>8836914
Yeah, hell we could just send her. She'll relay the info and the parts

>>8836914
Loot the weapons and any large pieces, mainly anything that looks important. Elaine has an engineering background so she should be able to find SOMETHING.

>>8836914
If there's salvage, TAKE IT. I'd be more in favor of sending the new guy if he isn't dead or not present, but Elaine would be more reliable.

>Suppose we ordered 8 coffins to be built

This! A thousand times this!

It's a perfect Lister prank. Shows respect and lets us be a self agrandising bastard at the same time. Glorious!

>>8836929
NEGATIVE

No one rides alone, that's deathwish number 3 in the gundam universe.

Guys, we really need the infantry with us. Thanks to those comand tanks they have the upper hand when it comes to locating us, but we even out with the infantry

do no send them, they and sonar are our only early warnings vs guys with beam rifles

>>8836914
Yes to both of those. Any extra bits of Lunar Titanium we can have smelted down and recast into some kind of Zeonic Gundam would be helpful.

>>8836944
Elaine has plot armor she needs to give birth to someone after all.

>>8836944
Agreed. What suits and pilots do we have here? We'll need to split into 2 roughly even teams to get back to base easily.

>>8836953
Good point.

I guess we send elane and the gigan? both can move fast (dunno why everyone assumes gigan is slow. hell its description was "Fast and cheep AA") and both can cary and complement eachother

infantry stay with us

>>8836944
Right. We send Bernie with her.

>send a team of 3 suits (unsure who) back to base to ask for some replacements.

One suit max. And i'd rather just send infantry really.

If they choose to attack this position in reprisal for us taking out Night - or to neutralise our heavy MS -, we will want to be prepared - and not at half strength.

>>8836990
Maybe we send the rino back. Im sure that thing can haul and we're doing anti MS work waiting for them to ambush us...artilery is kinda useless in a situation like that

>>8836971

Current squad status

Squad 1

David Lister: Pezun Dowdage
Zolomon Ringo: Pezun Dowdage
Elaine "Ruubens" Arronax: Pezun Dowdage (8-Tube Launcher out of ammo, 90mm+GL only)

Squad 2
Jolyne Brande: Gasshia (Light Damage)
Calvin Hobart: Flipper Zaku (Light Damage)
Bernard Wiseman: Gigan

Hovis Goddard: Rhinoceros

>>8836938
I like this plan.

Have the next patrol bring out eight coffins, one nailed shut. Write NIGHT in big, bright red on it.

>Guys, we really need the infantry with us.

That's why we send only one squad out of the entire force we have with us.

>>8836938
>Sometime in the future....

Feddie 1: ..so..I heard Nachtmaren's colors were seen near here.

Feddie 2: Who's?

Feddie 3: Holy shit! How do you not know the Skull Knights unit!?

Feddie 2: I just got transferred from Africa, I'm new here!

Feddie 3: Well listen...there are stories...He's an ace. Maybe the best ace Zeon's got. He's the guy who damn near took out Jaburo!

Feddie 1: He stopped the counter attack in Mexico too!

Feddie 4: You guys here about Canada? So of a bitch flew up there and builds eight coffins and didn't leave until he filled them with all of Wyatt Bandit's unit.

Feddie 2: Holy shit. He's the guy who killed the Bandit?!

Feddie 3: The Bandit and half of everyone we've lost in North America. The Skull Knight always collects...

>>8836998
>>8836986
>>8836971
>>8836953
OR! We could send Elaine with a few of the infantry, maybe 3-4, and keep the rest here.

It's better to send infantry, they're technically quicker then the MS and they have a lower profile.

OK COMPRIMISE

SOME INFANTRY, ELANE, AND GIGAN
OK? THAT GOOD!? GOD!

>>8837003
Can we enact quick repairs on the damaged suits?

>>8836960
Don't be too reliant on that. We're in a non-canon universe, and you DO only need to be alive and have a working reproductive system to give birth...

Get them to get back on dodai we need something to bypass the sonar.

>>8836944
Bernie, Elaine and some Infantry carrying the Beam rifle and any big bits of Luna Titanium back to base. Ask to be relieved so we can redeploy and fight the other flank.

We need something that makes talking with the base easyer, like laser comm post or something

>>8837028

Skull Knight is quickly becoming the Boogeyman of the Feddie forces, I mean, they're everywhere and I mean EVERYWHERE. They appear out of nowhere and destroy Gundams like they were nothing and vanish just as quickly.

>>8837057

Okay then.

You send Elain and Bernard off after salvaging as much as you can. In a fit of pique you shave the braches off a 15 meter tall pine tree nearby, and stick Nights MS head on it like a head on a pike. You topple the rest of the nearby trees to make sure it wont be missed and then gouge a great big "1" in the ground with your heat saber.

---

YOU ARE NOW ELAINE ARRONAX.

Your suit has ditched it's empty 8-tube and the infantry have lashed up a rigging that allows you to carry some more MS parts on your back whilst you carry your 90mm just in case.

You see Bernards Gigan bounce alongside you as it navigates over uneven terrain, rocks and tree roots.

"Wow, that looks like quite a ride Bernie." you comment.

"...yeah, I think I'm going to be sick." he responds.

"Uh, look under your seat, there should be a sickbag."

"Thanks."

MORE IN A BIT, GONE TO DINNER.

>>8837109
Enough beam rifles and we can put a pretty huge dent in it.

I don't like the idea of sending back half our AA capabilities on a simple messenger run...

>>8837132
Tell him about the cooler

>>8837132
>stick Nights MS head on it like a head on a pike

That's..that's not classy at all. I'm sorry I suggested anything...

>>8837140
We've faced biger airforces with only the rino, we'll be fine. Also now if air units decide to attack elane she's covered

>>8837140
Yeah, splitting off 2 of our members like this is just asking for them to get ambushed. we should just send a few infantry

>>8837133
OH SHIT. THIS IS A BRILLIANT IDEA.

WHY DON'T WE KEEP NIGHT'S BEAM RIFLE AND USE IT ON HIS BUDDIES? I don't think they'll be expecting that.

>>8837164
That's not how laser rifles currently work. this is before epack so energy is drawn from the suit.


None of our MS's are compatable

>>8837160
It's just a tad barbaric. It'll get the same point across, no?

>>8837164
THIS.

We need to keep it as a trump weapon though.

Apologized, how is the condition of the rifle?

>>8837164
Because it will have conveniently gone missing if we try to search for it. Do you really think Apologized will let us have a Beam Rifle more than 3 weeks before they've been developed?

>>8837191
Not exactly the same as giving, say, a respectful "no hard feelings" note and maybe a challenge.

>>8837187
I thought the rifles fire from a literal 'beam cartridge' Which is how they got around the whole "OH GOD NEED DEDICATED POWER PLANT" problem.

>>8837196
Just because you're pessimistic doesn't mean we can't ask.

>>8837132

Man, thats not cool there would have been much better things to do with that head, pretty much all of them would involve it being in places that the Feddies couldn't pick it up and repair it. Like having an Ork style Boss Pole, or weilding it like a helmet on to one of our suits I mean it is made out of the fancy metal and all.

>>8837191
>Hey, I respect you as soldiers.
>I WILL RIP TEAR YOUR GUTS

No.

>>8837210
It's ok. We're the bad guys.

We might wanna get Bernie a Zaku II and lend the AA to the base, we're MS hunting, not AA spamming.

>>8837227
trollface.jpeg

>>8837220
That's what e-pack is, all energy rifles will eventually use this type of system, not now though...then again we've accelerated the time of things on our side, could have done it for them too

>>8837220
It's still incompatible with Zeonic suit designs and hand interface plugs.

>>8837256
Ah. Are they security locked to only be able to be fired by a Federation mobile suit? Cause otherwise if it's just that we can't link it to our targeting computer, David can still shoot that shit just fine.

>>8837239
But what I described last post is what Apoligized has been saying the Gundam beam rifles use.

Solomon could probably work around that though.

>>8837164

I think it runs off of the gundams own power wasn't it?

>>8836837
I've never got a good idea of just how far out the prongs on the v bend. If they go way forward, the first design may work. Otherwise, we'd have to use the second. Or buld a mockup smaller V that doesn't hit the chest to use as a moustache.

>>8837300
It's more of a combination safety measure and man-machine interface, since most beam rifles pack their own backup targeting suites. Also, I have no idea if our own targeting computers need special software to use hand-carried beam weapons or not.

I still say we should have salvaged the V-fin So we could play a prank on Elaine with it later on.

>>8837341
Well lister is still at the site, so he could be doing that right now

>>8837314
I don't think it does...
From gundam wikia: In order to work around the mega-particle cannon's high energy demands (which hinders the use of beam weapons by mobile suits), the Earth Federation Forces (with the help of Dr. Minovsky, who had fled Zeon and joined the EF in the early U.C.0070s) developed the E-cap (a contraction of "energy capacitor"). This device stores Minovsky particles in a high-energy pre-compressed state, so that only a small amount of additional energy is required to trigger their fusion into mega-particles. The E-cap is charged by energy condensers at the mobile suit's home base or carrier ship, and then functions like a battery until its supply of particles is exhausted, at which point the weapon becomes useless. During the One Year War the Federation Forces perfected the E-cap and used it to create a miniaturized mega-particle cannon called a beam rifle, with which their first prototype mobile suits (the RX-78 and RX-77) are equipped.

>>8837334
Well, in any case I think it's worth checking with Apoligized about. Now we just need to wait...

>>8837366
Along with taking the head of a pike, I hope.

>>8837367
Yeah, two suits have the prototype E-cap. That tech isn't implemented yet. Odds are these beam rifles are not e-cap

>>8837300

We could probably work around that, but the problem is we don't have the machine necessary to actually charge it up, that's what Zeon is still working on.

>>8837321
Make the Mustache point up.

>>8837300
>But what I described last post is what Apoligized has been saying the Gundam beam rifles use.
Only you didn't finish it. The rifle uses energy from the suit to extend the minovsky bottle (the 'beam cartridge' as you called it) in the rifle to the target, allowing the energy to speed away & damage it.

That's what I remember without finding the description.

>>8837409
>Well, in any case I think it's worth checking with Apoligized about.
He's going to tell you 'No' if he answers at all.

>>8837416
Those are two "model of gundam" not two gundam. There is no beam rifle without E-cap technology yet so if there's one it has it.

>>8837511
Makes you wonder why alot of the crazy 8 don't use beam weapons

>>8837527
Akimbo's Zanny is just a Zaku in a GM suit, so it can't. Storm does, and so does Bandit. The Federation probably hasn't put them into full production yet. Remember, the first full production beam weapon they made had awful range.

Because we all use the same weapon right?
Storm: beam rifle
Akimbo: dual machine gun (probably due to recoil)
Flea: no info on weaponry
Bandit: beam rifle
Prophet: Dual 180mm canon (artillery)
Night: beam rifle (dead)

>>8837527

One reason is that they don't have much ammo, and they can't be recharged outside a major facility or battleship, so they don't have much battlefield endurance.

Flea is totally going to try and ambush our duo. This could be bad as Elaine is down to just her 90mm and chest cannon, and I'm not sure how good the Gigan could be in a gundam fight.

>>8837811

To be fair, her chest cannon is basically as good as a beam rifle, without the ammo limitation, but with a lower rate of fire.

>>8837811
Bernie can find a way.

>Realize that's what we said about Ramirez

FUUUUUU

>>8837811
I guess we should be happy this isn't G Gundam then.

>>8837811
Gigan has a good cannon and crazy arm gatling gun, and that chest laser can take care more or less anything

the're both fast and skilled, they'll be fine

>>8837822

We still haven't used that much have we?

Good for a surprise...

>>8837429
If we do that, it would block line of sight for the monoeye

And I'm back.

>Apologized, how is the condition of the rifle?

Working, although only your Pezun Dowdages have the reactor energy to fire it, even then you'd notice a similar performance loss as when you use the Chest Cannon.
Also, you'd need to make the targeting programs compatible.

---

You and Bernard continue bumping along south towards Smokey Lake, which hopefully will have a hardline phone connection to command in Edmonton.

Although permanantly overcast, the light and snow-fall isn't so bad, and you can see a fair distance. Which is why your infantry spot incoming fighters fairly quickly.

You turn to face them as they dive down on you and raise your 90mm.

"Bernie!" you call out.

"I got them!" He says and his Gigan begins firing Flak shells from it's "Gunbrero" whilst sending a stream of bullets from it's 120mm gatling cannon. Four of the 5 Fly Manta's practical disintegrate at this close and the last one breaks off his attack, allowing you to get a shot off with your Chest Cannon at him. Your shot takes a wing off and the plane spins into the ground.

You however slip and fall on your back, as the excess heat vented from your hip-exhaust melts the snow behind you and combined with the extra weight your carrying on your back you topple over.
Several of the tension wires snap spilling MS parts.

Re-attatching the salvage takes about 30 minutes.

After another 10 minutes of travel you find your way to the village of Smoky River and check in with friendly forces. They direct you to the local command post, who after being appraised of your situation, puts you in direct contact with Captain Salinca.

"Ah, Ruubens is it? Good to hear from you, what's the status of the Unit?"

YOUR ORDERS?

>>8837879

>gunbrero

Glorious.

>>8837843
I suppose widening it is out of the question then.

"Destroyed Night, we'd like supplie and 3 or 4 dodai if possible. At least one to help with communication."

>>8837879
"Light wear, nothing serious. I filled the first coffin for Lt. Commander Lister, so it evens out in our favor. We have some parts the techies might be interested in..."

>>8837879
Tell him what's up, we took out one (give salvage) need a better way to talk and sudgest inantry scouts to the other pickets, it worked AWESOME for us.

Also sudgest night strikes

Tell him that we engaged and destroyed Night, turn over the salvage from the Gundam and the beam rifle and ask for a relieving force for Nachtmaren.

>>8837879
>GUNBRERO

First thing's first, inform them of our taking out Night. Wait on passing the word along to Garma and Char until David gets back to base. Note that a couple suits need repairs, and reinforcements may be a help. Give them a heads up on the salvage too.

>>8837879
Can we see if there are any engineers that would attach it to our suit for us? I'm sure we could work on the targeting programs ourselves after a few test shots since we don't use a targeting computer anyway.

>>8837879
Gunbrero never ceases to make me laugh.

"Everything is in good shape sir. We managed to take out Night. We've managed to salvage some parts of his suit and are hoping to send it back to the guys in Research and Development. We're looking for orders; are we supposed to be relieved by now?"

>>8837916

Remember, the P.Dowdages, the Rhino and the Gigan can't use Dodai's if you want out it will be via Fat Uncle Transport or walking.

>>8837916
You forget the giant airforce the feds have against us

Get Ookawa to construct you a gundam
advicelister.jpg
Sue the federation for copyright infringement

>>8837971
It was more for a night strike on the left flank but oh well.

>>8837904
good idea. An 11 degree bend or so gives us minimal visual obstruction, but still looks awesome. It should still be identifiable as a Gundam V with that much modification, I think.

>>8837961

You ask about your status and when your supposed to be relieved.

"Have the unit pull back to here, we'll discuss your next move over the secure phone line. If you need any back up, take a squad of Mobile Suits with you, we'll have them head up and retrieve the picket squads north of you as well."

You take a squad of Zaku's led by a Gouf - A with you as you return back to the rest of the unit.
The Salvage is dropped off at the command post, they say they'll have it transported back to Edmonton and from there to Cali for you.

>>8838067
cool, backups. Well get back there and definetly drag some infantry out there for them. Its the best form of early warning out here

>>8838067
Jolly good, I assume there will be no trouble driving back?

Keep an eye out for interesting things though.

>>8838014
Gee where have I see this before

YOU ARE ONCE AGAIN DAVID LISTER

You are currently waiting for orders. It is 8:00am.
The visiblity is fine, could cover is overcast and grey, with light snow.

Talking with your infantry team reveals that it has been snowing near continuously since the start of the war.

At around 8:05 you get an update by Calvin. His sonar is picking up incoming enemy Tanks from the west. He also can't discount the possiblity of Mobile Suits being with them, but he can't be sure.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>8838120
Time to do what we do the best. Foil the Feddies plan.

>>8838120
Time to scout I guess. I say take hobes with us to recon or wait for them to A) come to us B) pass by hit from the rear

>>8838120
Be on the look out for tarps.

And traps. Mostly tarps though.

We need to introduce ourselves to the grunt feddie troops anyway.

>>8838138

Okay, so who or what's doing the scouting mission.

Don't forget your infantry!

>>8838190
Well they'll be the quietest on the wappas. Send them instead, stay in the trees stay low and quiet. We'll bomb them, maybe. Lets see what we're up against

>>8838120
Wappa infantry is made for scoutin'! Send them out to confirm if there are nay enemy MS with the tanks.

>>8838190
Infantry is scouting up ahead with Calvin in the rear using passive sonar. Lister, Zoloman and Elaine should be with the infantry or slightly behind them. Artillery support should be behind Calvin. Should we be engaged by several Gundams or a long range Gundam threat, Calvin should go Active Sonar and Artillery support should open up with the guns.

>>8838227
If they're using the other radar guy he'll hear everyone coming and we'll be dead. Its best to just send the infantry, by seeing the suits we can figure out which tank it is

>>8838190
inb4 feddies are surfing tanks to remain undetected.

>>8838237
I think they used the Radar guy last time and they underestimated us since they thought we were picket guys. He'll know we are coming this time, so we might as well mess up their advance while we can.

>>8838203
>>8838214

You have the Wappa's scout out ahead. They head west for a few minutes before getting your report.

"It's enemy tanks all right sir! Looks like a 15 strong company with Assault Gun artillery support! No sign of enemy mobile suits at this time!"

YOUR ORDERS?

>>8838309
Time for the rino to do its job, don't send the suits it might be a trap

>>8838309
Oh boy! 15? Against 2 Dowadges and the Rhino? I almost feel sorry for them. Alost. Let's get them, but it's probably a trap, so keep the Rhino and the Ghassia back to cover us and Zol.

>>8838309
Call in those fire zones and fire for effect! But preferably only after the tanks get to a spot they can't scatter from that well.

>>8838309
Shell them to draw out any Gundams hiding.

>>8838340
Scratch that, shell them with the Rhino. Keep a bit of distance from it since they're probably trying to determine where we are by where the shelling comes from. When they come for Hovis, we spring the trap!

>>8838379
PREPARE FOR
>>8836259

>>8838309

Shell them with the rhino, then move.

Shell them again. Then move in and attack.

>>8838258
...maybe /we/ should try this, to keep them off-guard! This plan can have no downsides.

>>8838449

Assuming all of our tanks are Magellas the design miight make it a little hard to surf them.

BUT.

If there was some way we could eject the Magella Top and then rig up the base to remote control from our cockpit or something therebouts it'd be fucking awesome.

>>8838424
Shell them to cover our movement. I doubt sonar would be able to pick us with the explosion.

>>8838511
The super sonar guy will be able to with no problem. He can even tell what suits are HIS in the middle of a firefight

>>8838342
>>8838326
>>8838348
>>8838379

You order Jolyne and Hovis to fire for effect in that area. Using targeting data from the Infantry the two triangulate an effective fire pattern and begin bombarding the enemy with 300mm shells and unguided rockets.
Mostly rockets.

You can see the orange light from explosions over the tops of the tree cover.

"On target! Confirmed on target! Incoming counter barrage!"

Before you have time to order it, both Hovis and Jolyne redeploy to a second firing position to the south before resuming fire. Heavy howitzer shells fall into unoccupied territory.

"Enemy units confirmed in retreat! I see 7 effective mission kills, what are your orders sir?"

YOUR ORDERS?

>>8838541
Try to figure out where the counter artillery fire came from. Then speed to its position.

>>8838541
We shouldn't peruse them. We really don't want the enemy to know what they're fighting against just yet.

>>8838541
I say hunker down, watch for mobile suits. It's probably bait to make us chase them into an ambush.

>>8838541
Well...they must be retreating somewhere...It's not Wyatt's style to send mooks into the fire to lure us out...

JUST BECAUSE I expect it to be a trap, we should follow, loudly.

>>8838541
Now we know where Storm is. He's hiding in the trees.

Continue to move and fire, us and zoll should go in and take him out

sonar guy isn't here

Yes! Zeonquest!

>>8838541

Lets have us and Zol pursue them and try to force a surrender of the remaining units.

>>8838588
Why wouldn't he be here?

>>8838619
Because he's the tank commander in Bandits team. storm has the other guy that can...i forget something about long range

>>8838565

Artillery came from the Assault Guns that were attatched to the Tank Company.

I would have mentioned if the artillery had come out of nowhere.

>>8838662
so it wasn't storm? reguardless we shouldn't send everyone in. this might be a double feint on storms. they're defiently drawing us out. If they knew their ms went missing here they wouldn't just send a tank company by the same place

>>8838662
Then give them some counter counter artillery!

>>8838636
>>8838619
>>8838588
You guys DO remember that there's another guy who uses artillery, right? Bandit's second in command? The one who can hit targets from over 2 kilometers away without a spotter? Yeah.

>>8838688

No, they were solid shells, not rockets.

>>8838695
ah, just thought a barage like that could only be a bunch of rockets. it isn't storm or profet its just the tanks...so far

>>8838694
He uses a bazooka, not an artillery gun.

>>8838712

No, GM Prophet uses a 180mm Artillery Gun.
However, you know THIS counter-battery fire was from the Assault guns because your infantry saw them firing back at you.
That's HOW the infantry knew you were about to receive counter battery fire before Calvin did.

>>8838712

This is what he uses, unless I'm mistaken. Not a bazooka.

>>8838712
I thought he used the squad cannon not a bazooka

If any of the infantry is willing to follow them back to find their base, they can go. But we won't force them into a near suicide mission.

>>8838751
Well, whatever's firing on us, can Jol and Hovis start firing back on them?

I saw we follow. They probably weren't expecting to get owned so fast, so whatever plan they had has probably go to be altered or go off a little sooner at least. We should press the advantage, being wary of what's ahead.

i read the thread title as ZIONIST PLOT

>>8838791

They DID. the entire company is in retreat, and NOT firing back at you any more.

>>8838804

So advance?

>>8838826
No, keep our infantry watiching

Have any infantry volunteers do some recon and return to base. Only if they're willing.

>>8838826
Well fire some MORE. I've yet to meet a problem that can't be solved by shelling it with artillery until it's dead. But keep back. Don't engage it ourselves. And try to keep spread out.

>>8838833
>>8838855
>>8838861

You order the team to keep shelling to speed the enemies retreat.
Once you're sure they're in full flight you ask if the Recon Element feel they can risk folling the enemy back to their main staging area.

"Begging your pardon sir, but we KNOW where the main stagin area for the tanks is. They've been pretty unsubtle with it the whole time, it's the MS we can't pin down."

YOUR ORDERS?

>>8838968
Spread them out, back to sitting around waiting for people to run into us

>>8838968

I was really hoping we could force a surrender from them. Would have been nice to have some prisoners to question about the MS staging zones.

>>8838968
Get back into position and wait for Bernard and Elaine to get back with orders. Keep alert and on patrol. But assing two of the infantry to shadow the retreating tanks, just in case they go somewhere we don't expect them too. Once it becomes obvious that they're heading back to the regular camp, the infantry should head back. But if they head to somewhere different, it would be good to know.

Well, we could slaughter all of their tanks to try and draw out some gundams. Feddie MS's might be nasty, but the biggest damage they've been doing has been from opening up holes in the line for their armor to roll through. Let's see if they can pull off a tank rush when they're all out of tanks.

>>8838968
It we make a probing attack we might be able to draw out the MS. Should attempt to make an advance if we can.

This entire time I can't help but picture bastogne from band of brothers, but everyone is a dom or zaku

>>8839095
Turn the tables on them? Now they have Mobile Suits in their shit?

>>8838968
Let's see what we can do in regards to surprise attacks. I'm not sure whether or not they'd expect us to follow them, though leaning towards not. If anything, we could wait somewhere else and ambush their staging area at a time that seems right.

>>8839043
>I was really hoping we could force a surrender from them. Would have been nice to have some prisoners to question about the MS staging zones.

Well, there ARE some survivors from the destroyed tanks if you want...

>>8839168
Ok, send in our troops. We'll bring them back with us when we go to get our orders

>>8839174
not all the troops of course, keep some in the trees just in case.

>>8839115
Pretty much. Jab out in an aggressive push and see if we can lure the enemy mobile suits into favorable terrain. The only downside is that they ALL might come at once, which would be troublesome.

>>8839168
Grab 'em with our infantry and lets start interrogating if we can. Or let them know that Nachtmaren has come to clean up this resistance and release them to spread the word.

>>8839168

Sweet! We get to torture a whole bunch of Feddies!

There anything proper we can do?

>>8839168
Honestly, I feel silly for having never asked before. Probably won't get much the MS's are probably independent of their chain of command. Never know though, maybe we'll get lucky.

>>8839217
> clean up this resistance and release them to spread the word.
This isn't inglorious basterds, we're on the borders of two forces fighting a war.

That just gives away our picket location and gives the feds their tank crews back.

>>8839168
Interrogate, though not harshly and keep them as POWs. In a fairly nice place.

>>8839263
Right, after we're done interrogating them we'll have them sent off to POW camp where they can be used as bargaining chips.

>>8839174
>>8839187

You order the Infantry Platoon to take captives, some minutes pass. Then, unexpectly you hear the staccato of heavy vulcans.

"Enemy! Enemy in the trees to the north! Retreating!"

"Calvin?"

"I've got nothing on scopes, they must have moved in whilst the bombardment was clouding my sonar!"

"What type of enemies are you facing Infantry Team?"

"Unknown attackers from the woods! Armour Piercing 60mm shells looks like! We've lost the APC and Lieutenant Marsh!"

YOUR ORDERS?

>>8839360

Call in artillery on that position, then have us and Zol flank it. Calvin can do his best to keep track of it.

>>8839360
I knew it.

Send more bombs over, see if we can get the wappas to flank and see exactly what's in those trees

maybe move calvin a bit closer for a better reading

>>8839360

Move up and support the infantries retreat, once we have a location we can shell it, until then move up and provide covering fire, we can't let our soldiers die.

>>8839360
Oh my god, they killed Stan!

Fuck it. They want us to take the bait so bad, let's do it. "You don't fuck with us" is a message they're going to receive.

>>8839360
Shell it with artillery and advance slowly.

Keep on our toes. The attack in the trees may be a diversion, to distract us from an attack from the other side.

>>8839360
Call in artillery on the enemy's position, us and Zol move up to get a look ourselves. Remind me, is the Pezun Dowadge the one with 4 60mm head vulcans?

Let me get this straight?

You want to call in an artillery strike? At the enemy MS? Which is right now attacking our infantry?

SOUNDS GOOD BROS

>60mm
Oh god, that's Gundam Head Vulcan caliber.

>>8839501
It shot the infantry that left the trees from another group of trees to the north. They'll be fine

>>8839501

It's firing from the trees north of our infanty, it's not directly assaulting them.

Pretty sure, anyways.

>>8839515
I know there's the Pezun Dowadge and the Dowadge, and one of them has 4 60mm head vulcans. I hope ours has them, because, hey, that's a lot of extra firepower. Might not break through Lunar Titanium, but it's a good way to conserve bazooka ammunition against tanks.

>>8839535

Nah, the Pezun Dowadge is just a souped-up Dom, more or less. It's faster, more agile, tougher, and it's chest gun is a full-on beam cannon rather than a piddly blinding weapon. Also it's got better hand held armaments.

>>8839535
>Might not break through Lunar Titanium
No, not at all, even 90mm and 120mm MG guns can barely scratch it.

>>8839535
The normal dowadge is ZZ-tech and has a beam halberd, wrist mounted beam MG, and giant spinning laser blades of doom.

>>8839586
>beam halberd

Do want

>>8839586
>>8839549
I wonder if we can convince them to give our Dowadges some head vulcans...

>>8839457

No, no vulcans.

You give the order to shell the enemy location to Hovis and Jolyne whilst you and Zolomon attempt to outflank them.

As the two of you zip ahead, you see missiles and shells fly overhead you dart into the thick trees, they cover your advance, but on the other hand they do the same for your prey.

In the thick trees, Zolomon starts to lag behind.

Scanning the trees you see movement, you can't identify it, but it's definately an enemy mobile suit.

YOUR ORDERS?

This is easy, we sit back and shell the hostile MS to kingdom come. If it's moved on we'll know once it starts shooting again, if it hasn't it's an easy kill.

>>8839596

It's probably too tightly tuned to accept much modification. It's a ridiculously high-spec machine, after all.

>>8839360
>>8839515

>>60mm

Judging from the dossiers we received on the enemy MS it almost has to be either the Bandit or Storm. Either way they've got a beam rifle.

An artillery strike/more of those lovely 440mm rockets would be ideal, but we don't want to splatter our infantry which are most definitely within the friendly fire zone.

I think we should order the infantry to fall back and see what happens. If the attacker doesn't follow them flatten the area with arty/rockets. If they do, we'll at least know what we're working with and be able to engage them more directly.

>>8839598
Set out chest beam to blind. Tell zol to do the same, make it so we can see him but he can't see us

Fire at will

>>8839598
Lunge forward to engage and let Zol catch up on his own time. Avenge the APC!

>you can't identify it, but it's definately an enemy mobile suit

...Works for me. Introduce it to large caliber fire.

>>8839598
Reach out with our minds and try to get an idea of where the enemy is. Then tell Zol, and strike them.

>>8839598

Don't get seperated from Zol, keep to cover and close on the enemy suit. Target corrections for our artillery. Lets see if we can't make a visual confirmation on who we are fighting here.

>>8839598
Relay coordinates to artillery if we can through this kind of particle density in order to cut off its retreat. Force it towards Lister and Zol.

Have Lister open fire once Zol has moved up with him and pincer this right bastard. Work in tandem to destroy the Feddie menace.

Engage the enemy and have zol move to surprise him from the side with the chest beam. Make it a quick and painless fight.

>>8839613
Chest beam should be used to kill now. Nothing like tricking an enemy who is used to piddly scattering beam cannons into trying to shield visors when he should be evading a nasty beam shot.

>>8839586

>The normal dowadge is ZZ-tech and has a beam halberd, wrist mounted beam MG, and giant spinning laser blades of doom.

No, THAT'S the Dreissen (see pic).

The Dowdage was basically the final upgrade package for the basic Dom frame, appearing essentially identical except in desert camo.

>>8839662
This.

ZOLOMON HAMMER GUNS, AIMING IN FRONT OF ITS PATH, HOPING TO HIT IT HARD AS FUCK!

>>8839662
How about david blinds zol blasts?

>>8839613
I'm not sure that we have a clear shot for the beam in blinders mode. At most, I think we'd end up with some singed trees and very some disoriented moose. If we get a clear shot, hitting it with the beam on full would do the trick, seeing as beam weapons tend to treat everything they encounter as soft cover up to and including other mobile suits. Doesn't sound like we have a sure shot though.

Maybe have Zol sneak around behind while we keep the guy focused on us?

>>8839664
Oh right, I was never good at remembering ZZ silly names.

>>8839713
That might work. the beam clears up the path and he has to look away, suddenly "Hey that dom is doing the same thing, i'll just FUUUUUUUUUU-"

Forcing him to either leave himself stunned or turn his back towards us? Sounds like a plan.

>>8839713
Thirded, let's get some teamwork going.

>>8839713
That's a great idea, let's do this.

In during JET STREAM ATTAAACK

>>8839627
>>8839613

You move in to intercept, flitting between 18 meter tall redwoods like they were saplings. You duck under his first shot with the Beam Rifle and return the favour with a shot from your 330mm Bazooka. He dashes out of the way of the blast unharmed but you're able to get visual confirmation: It's your old friend from Jaburo : Wyatt Bandit in his Gundam prototype.

His backwards beam shot is awkward, you jink to the side as you see it swing round and avoid the shot.
Then the two of you break into a relatively wide clearing.

The snow is still falling on the ground and the sky is still grey.
You hope those are birds you see circling overhead...

Bandit turns to face you, his Beam Rifle at the ready, shield in the other hand.

You check your systems and prepare yourself for a battle.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>8839873
>You hope those are birds you see circling overhead...

FUCK that's probably their air force

oh well do >>8839713
JET STREAM ATTACK!

>>8839873
FFFFFFFFFFFF- Blind and Beam cannon his ass.

>>8839873
>>8839817
>>8839793
>>8839744
>>8839713
These.

>>8839873
Let's go heavy on the dodging. Wait until he has to rest or reload or something, then unload on him.

Also, say hi.

>>8839873
You can see him, and your chest beam should be good to go. He doesn't know about it. Light him up.

On the other hand, we have now been lured into a clearing. An open clearing with no real cover. Beware of artillery strikes.

>>8839873
Where's that artillery!

Bandit lead us into an ambush. Lister and Zol should pincer Bandit and use their chest beams and pull back into the cover of the trees. Try to have artillery pull Bandit towards us while shaking up his aim. Keep bazooka fire on him while pulling back with Zol.

Bandit is smart and is trying to control the battlefield as much as we are. Daring and caution in appropriate measure.

>>8839873

Lets ruin his day, JETSTREAM ATTACK GO!

Also since when did we have special moves? Regardless he still has a beam rifle so lets get ready to dodge. Radio through that its Bandit to anyone who can hear us, damn particles, we need a flare system to denote who we are facing and standard tactics to go with it. For instance, white flare is The White Devil, the tactic is to flee and call Char.

Lets just hope Zol gets the message and doesn't get flatfooted by a beam shot before he can tell whats going on.

>>8839873
Also now that the gundam is gone how about our infantry gets those prisoners?

>>8839960
Also get confirmation on those "birds" from the Gigan and if they are enemy air assets give them some good ol' AA treatment.

Don't forget that firing the chest beam in lolbeamrifle mode causes us to have to stop moving

>You hope those are birds you see circling overhead...
Unlimited fly manta works.

>>8839908
do you save ALL my pictures?

>>8839873
Be wary of Bandit's Sniper friend. Save the blinding beam as a surprise, then blast him with the proper Beam Gun.

Disable his limbs if possible. If we can do that, he has less mobility or attack options, and it's not easy to repair a superprototype.

You're good Wyatt, your suit's not bad either. I was hoping you'd be last but, if you're eager, I'll let you go second.

>>8839992
I save all of everyone's pictures in most threads I reply to whether I go in named or anon.

>>8839988
That's why we (the guy he's focused on) shal only use blinders, that didn't effect the other doms why would it effect the upgrade?

>>8839988
Oh fuck, you're right. And if he manages to dodge the beams and get a bead on us when we can't move... Oh well, I don't think we know in-character that firing them causes temporary immobility, so we'd probably try it anyway.

>>8839988 here

Wait, do we know that in character though?

>>8839988
Scratch the beamshot then and just open fire with bazookas and whatever Zol has in a standard pincer. We could still probably tone down the power of the beam and blind him though.

>>8840034

It's not immobility, it's just a moment of slower hovering.

>>8840007
Throw on a little rib, "How far do you plan on running this time?"

>>8839988
>>8840034
David is the one he's pointing at, and he's not going to use that kind of beam

Zoloman will beam him if he's blind, even if he misses we'll be able to cover zol with our zook.

Zol's going to fall on his ass like elane did

Remember to turn off our suits limiters and go all out full frontal attack.

>>8840082
>>8840007
Yes, lay on that Lister charm...don't forget to dodge though.

>>8840121
We should probably save that for when we can draw Bandit back into the trees. This clearing is definitely Bandit's trap.

We should do a quick Jet Stream Attack and then pull back while artillery pushes Bandit towards us.

Zolomons nowhere to be found, which is irritating, you could have done with some backup. The two of you are slowly circling each other, waiting for a chance.
You carefully toggle your chest gun to lethal, and settle into a firing position.

Your opening shot comes not from your bazooka but from your Beam Cannon. The shot takes him by suprise, catching the left side of his mobile suits face. On a person it'd be a lethal hit, but a mobile suit can ignore such things.
The left eye is melted in half, and you see sparks intermingled with the ammo feed dumping 60mm shell after 60mm shell to the ground. He get's lucky and the ammo magazine doesn't cook off. You dash to the left as he returns fire with the beam rifle, but the head damage must be interferring with his sensors and the shot goes wide. You fire a second blast at him, he fails to completely dodge it, but nevertheless the rocket bounces harmlessly off his pauldron as he quickly ducks and careens into an empty space behind the two of you before exploding.

By his second shot you can tell he's adapted to the head damage, and slags the leftmost belt skirt armour and neatly shears the handle of your Heat Saber off.
Damn, that's one less option for you.

Despite this you dash in close, your thrusters jet unequally, causing you to spin to the side, it's this maneouver that enable you to rapidly reduce your profile and avoid his next shot.
Your shoulder collides with him at 300kmph, and his mobile suit tumbles head over heels backwards you see his Beam Rifle go flying.

You press your assault...

>>8840261
Sucks that we didn't get a JET STREAM ATTACK off but lister seems to be doing damn well on his own

>>8840261

Oh yeah, hand to hand time, no stinking beam rifle for him! Lets see if we can't do more damage to his head, after all its already half broken.

>>8840329
Too bad we are going to get toasted by Bandit's buddies who have been waiting to ambush us since we entered the clearing. Damnit Zol did you get killed on the way here or something?

>>8840261
Close combat? Watch out for that saber...

Fire our zook at minimum arming distance to give the smallest chance of dodging. Also perhaps another beam shot?

He's on the ground? Finish him with a second chest beam. No need to risk close combat.

>>8840261
LET THIS BE OUR FINAL BATTLE

SIEG ZEON!

>>8840392
Or a bazooka round directly to the cockpit. That'll learn 'um.

>>8840261

BAZOOKA SHELL AT HIS FEET! FOLLOW UP WITH CHEST BEAM IF IT DISTRACTS HIM!

>>8840261
Aim a Beam Cannon shot at a leg or upper thigh.

>>8840261
I guess that's one advantage to having your bean weapon built into your chest.

>>8840359
They won't be able to bombard us if we're in grappling range with him. This will only become a problem if we kill him or he manages to break away. Although if we're in grappling range, we're also in saber range...

YOU ARE NOW ZOLOMON RINGO

You fall behind as you are having trouble navigating through the trees, you scan the terrain, and see an enemy mobile suit with a heavy gun. Expecting that David will see it soon and join you, you move to attack.

You raise your your 330 and go to press the trigger when the enemy mobile suit spins around and fires simulatneously to you the 180mm shell impacts with your bazooka in the middle of it's recoil, just below the muzzle and the impact dashes the weapon from your hand.

Your shot however also flies true and you see the enemy bring his gun up at just the last minute to defend against it, ruining it.

You draw your Heat Saber and charge in, the enemy dives out of the way into the trees, your strike heats a redwood, there's a second of resistance and the tree falls, neatly sheared at 9 meters.

You scan the surrounding for the enemy, you can't see him, but you know he's there...

>>8840261

BLINDING SHOT THEN PRESS THE ATACK!

>>8840458
Shit, so that's where zol was

Keep moving, we don't want this guy to get the jump on us.

>>8840458
Focus Zolomon! He's avoiding you, trying to get an easy kill shot! You have to keep close!

>>8840458
Keep moving. When he shoots, you'll have something to go on, but for now don't make yourself an easy target on purpose.

>>8840458
Keep dodgy and find this asshole. Get in close and if we get locked in melee hit him with a point blank chest beamshot.

>>8840458
Hah, there goes the artillery specialist's cannon! Not quite so formidable now. Keep mobile, try to get a bead on him and make use of the Heat Sabre.

Stay dodgy and move in close when he attacks. Press the assault with the saber, then use the chest beam up close.

>>8840458
>You draw your Heat Saber
Too bad we have no Heat Hawks...

>>8840458
Move into closer range, this is one of the long range specialists. We don't want to have a long range fight with a long range enemy.

Did we spot any other weapons on him?

We need to be a little careful. Prophet might not be the best in melee, but his GM Ground still has a beam saber and we don't want to end up hamburger. Then again, we are Zolomon fucking Ringo.

I say we keep moving and scan the area and expect some sort of ambush, since Prophet would probably be better off trying to get the drop on us instead of attacking us head-on.

>>8840672
I'm pretty sure Zolomon is on standing orders to have at least one Heat Hawk on his MS at all times.

This guy was probably lying in wait to bombard us when Bandit drew David out into the clearing. Bandit's probably wondering where his artillery went.

>>8840688
Actually it got TWO beam sabers.

>>8840261

BACK TO DAVID LISTER

You move forwards and fire a bazooka shot at Bandit, there's a flash of purple light, and your shell flies harmlessly to the side.
Both sides
In two piece.

"Oh you can NOT be serious." You exclaim as Bandit uses his boosters to lift himself up and into a full counter-attack charge.

You take the to the skies, your legs flailing about in an attempt to avoid his first savage slash. The Dowdage sluggishly responds, it's not suited for taking to the air like a Zaku or Gouf. The blade cuts a narrow furrow in the sole of your foot, and warning signal blare from your computer, telling you that the Hoverjets from that area have had to emergency shut down.

You land unsteadily and Bandit presses his attack, his last remaining head-vulcan fires at you, peppering you with shots, your cockpit shakes with the impact, but the armour holds.
Mostly
Insistant red warning lights tell you that the Beam cannon has been hit and disabled by the vulcans.
Suddnely, extra energy floods your movement systems as the weapon shuts down and it's power is rerouted, you take advantage of the extra thrust and you dodge backwards, the extra speed is unaccounted for in Bandits attack and his next slash goes wide, leaving him overextended.

You fire the bazooka. This time it hit's dead on. There's a great explosion...

>>8840755
Okay, when did Bandit get enough PP to buy Sword Cut.

You know if we get a chance to FINISH HIM we should use a good old uppercut to the Cockpit. Probably wont kill him but at least knock him out. Guessing he still got somekind of plot armour.

>>8840755
FIRE AGAIN, HE'S NOT DEAD

>>8840786
When he started being a recurring boss.

>>8840755
OH SHIT. Grapple him from behind if he's still in one piece. Tell him to shut his ass down or we'll core his cockpit with our chest cannon.

>>8840755
Let's see what non-Gundam bit of him blew up now.

>>8840846
You mean the chest cannon that he just disabled? I don't feel safe with that kind of bluff.

>>8840833
Scratch that, capture would be awesome and more bro worthy. Give him a chance, I'd say. If it kills us, let it be said it was our compassion that blinded, woe to the world where great men have none.

>>8840755

Goddamn I hate newtypes, them and their jedi-like abilities. As I remember someone said something about suit limiters, lets take them off while we have a spare moment. Then, more kicking his ass.

bitches don't know bout my limiter

Aim your zook at the cockpit, demand his surrender and capture him alive. Congratulate him on lasting so long against the Knight of Skulls.

Guessing he Either
A) Retreats as the smoke clears
B) A buddy comes in and saves his ass
C) He charges out of the smoke and shanks US so he can retreat.
D) Ejects and GTFO

BACK TO ZOLOMON

Your mono-eye scans from left to right, looking for any sign of movement.

Leaves fall
Snow falls
Birds give flight
Shells behind you fall with a muffled thump
The GM charges to your left with it's beam saber draTHERE THERE THERE THERE!

You swing to parry his first stroke, the manouver is succesful, but the Heat Saber fails to block the weapon for more than a fraction of a second before melting through.
But a fraction of a second is all you need to fire your chest cannon. The blast neatly slices through the opponents arm his heat saber falls and fizzles to the side.
You toss your destroyed saber and draw your 90mm as the enemy retreats, you move to press your attack when from the chest piece it fires a massive steel web.

"What the FUCK!?" You exclaim as your suit is forces back and collides with a tree. You struggle to move, but the netting has entangled you with the tree and you cant.

"Fuck!" you repeat as the enemy moves off and then jump hops with it's thrusters out of the battlefield, towards enemy lines.

"Well fuck."

To be fair though, you were wondering why the guy wasn't using his flamethrowers.

in before prespective switch before we get any sort of confirmation or denial on our kill

>>8840944
Might want to gimp his legs first before you do that. In fact you might want to simply come back later for the wreckage since we still have no idea what happened to Zol. Helping him out should be our first priority if the Gundam is out of action.

>>8840970

Oh. C'mon!

That's not even fair!

>>8840970
Satter beam will probably melt zol free.

>>8840970
Prophet, stop using that Spider Net. You are in a GM, not a Gespenst.

>>8840970
MOTHERFUCKER

How long will it take us to get out of this thing? In any case, remember this spot so we can recover the dropped saber and chunk of MS.

>>8840970
GOD DAMN IT ALL
It has a multilauncher on its chest.

Alright, let's get ourselves out of this damned net thing.

Congratulations, you have been promoted to the rank of Bait in the Trap company.

>>8840970
>it fires a massive steel web.

Well played Predator. But next time, next time.

>>8840970
Cloaks....nets....*sigh*

FUCK IT, WE'RE GOING TO SHARPEN EVERY SPIKE, EDGE, AND ROUNDED SURFACE WE HAVE ON OUR MOBILE SUITS.

>>8840970
HOLD IT! GM(G)s dont have Multi-launchers like the RX-79s! Was this a retrofitted model or soemthing?

>>8841054
That's not how you escape from nets. Don't you remember the gladiators?

Shit. It's probably going to help Bandit. Is there anyway we can signal david or any re-enforcements? Or better yet, signal Calvin and have him direct artillery to cut off it's retreat.

I have a feeling we're autosaging, btw.

>>8841115
Nah he's not, he's unarmed...literaly

>>8841103

He has a point. Just checked MAHQ and unless it's a RX-79G with a GM head that is a no go.

>>8841161
Well all the suits are custom jobs. So i wouldn't be suprised

>>8840970
Scatter beam should melt through the net and let us out. Failing that, rip the fucking tree up by the roots.

BACK TO DAVID

AGAIN

When the smoke clears you see that the Gundam has been blown some distance away, whilst it looks as though the shield took most of it, it appears that he wasn't able to get it in position in time, and his suit has taken damage. Even through the lunar titanium you can see gouges and burn markings. The beam saber fizzles harmlessly in his hands.
The shield has been effectively destroyed.

You move in to finish him, when only the slightest movement in your upper quadrant alerts you at the last second to the enemy air attack. The missiles explode at your feet as the Saberfish mount their strafing run.

5 of them circle around you contstanlt peppering you with high explosive rockets as you struggle to dodge them all. Your already battered armour takes another couple of light hits.
Your responding fire takes one out, but they're too far apart to catch multiple planes in a single shot.

"Don't worry sir! I'll help!" Comes the cry of Private Bernard Wiseman as his Gigan bounds into the clearing from the south.
His Gunbrero and 120mm Gatling cuts a swath through the enemy air units, three die before they even know what's happening, the other two decide discretion is the better part of valour and make their escape. Even then they take some shots from the Gigan as they go.

You scan the battlefield.
As you expected, Bandit has used this chance to escape.

"You know, I'm getting all kinds of sick and tired of this..."
You comment.

>>8841256

That slippery bastard.

When we get a chance, we shouldn't kill him. No. Killing him is too good at this point.

>>8841103
>HOLD IT! GM(G)s dont have Multi-launchers like the RX-79s! Was this a retrofitted model or soemthing?

Well, they ARE aces. It wouldn't be unfeasable.
I mean hell, you've got a load of Zaku's back at Cali with head vulcans.

That you never used.

>>8841256

>"You know, I'm getting all kinds of sick and tired of this..."

<_<

>>8841256

BAAAAAAAAAAANDIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTT!!!!!!!!!!

Goddamn Saberfish D:

>>8841256
Did Bandit leave his beam rifle? If so it's time to pick up another one and go find Zol. Tell Bernie to stay frosty for the rest of the enemy MS team.

>>8841256

I'LL GET YOU NEXT TIME BANDIT!

NEXT TIME!!!

>>8841256
Well at least we put the two most dangerous guys out of action for a while, also we might be able to ambush them mid repair with the tank crews we captured

Leave some infantry with the picket replaceing us, now the crazy 8 will think they're us...poor guys could use a bit of early warning

>>8841256
>As you expected, Bandit has used this chance to escape.

God. Fucking. Damn. It.

>>8841296

Hmmm. Think we should give Bernie one?

>>8841296
We totally used those! For like, 3 threads before they became outdated.

>>8841256
We need an absolute one-on-one at some point. That's the only way to take this bastard down.

Let's fall back for now. See what can be done about salvaging.

>"Don't worry sir! I'll help!" Comes the cry of Private Bernard Wiseman as his Gigan bounds into the clearing from the south.

Imagined this with Bernie in full happy retard mode, laughed.

Considering the damage delt to the Bandits Gundam, maybe we fucked him up in his cockpit a bit, monitor glas to the face or something. Anyways, this is two units which wont be fighting again anytime soon.

>>8841256
Broadcast as far as we can, maybe a feddie will pick it up:

"I have your number Wyatt. 2-1 or is it 3-1 my favor?"

>>8841341
Would be hilarious if the Feds have to stick a GM head on the Gundam.

>>8841316
>picket replaceing us, now the crazy 8 will think they're us...poor guys could use a bit of early warning

Fuck its going to suck to be them

Actually, I think we should capture bandit and then TREAT HIM WELL, just to spit in the eye of the concept that feddies are morally better than Zeon. We'll then have a nice chat, congratulate him on a job well done holding out against us for so long, and then have him shipped of to HQ for interogation.

>>8841256
Time to find Zol, and disengage for repairs. We don't have the armament to stay on the front lines anymore.

Oh and we're definitly autosaging now.

>>8841395
This, except we let him go. If we ship him back, it'd be well and good, but if we let him go it'll stick in his craw the fact that we can beat him whenever we want, and we're confident enough we can just let him go with an invitation for next time we meet.

>>8841439
Now you're being stupid. Don't let the enemy ace pilot get away when you could neutralize him via capture or death. You are getting way too overconfident.

Well, I'am not too surprised since Bandit has to be in the final battle, so I guess we round everybody up and RTB. Also since our Chest beam cannon is damaged maybe it would be better if we deactivate it and use the leftover power to boost our suits overall performance.

>>8841439
I say we go one further and give him a beer each time we win. And we'll keep being all nice about it.
With a bit of luck we'll either make him defect or drive him mad.

>>8841439
That's taking it too far. Best case scenario, he'd think we're just that dumb and underestimate us. Worst case scenario, he pulls out ALL stops to take us and only us down.

In either one, we're giving the enemy back an ace pilot.

I would still like to get Bernard into a mobile suit. Maybe we could rotate him and Elaine occasionally?

>>8841439
No. You don't let an enemy ace go like that. You keep them as a prisoner of war, if you don't kill them outright.

>>8841495
Dunno how likely that is. Just because one dude got shot down by the Red Baron four times doesn't mean he wanted to betray England, he just kept trying.

>>8841341

Technically speaking, the reason why he couldn't get his shield in the way in time is because he's only got one arm, and that was controlling the beam saber at the time.

----

You and the Zaku reinforcements meet back up. Zol appear round about then and gives the lowdown of his encounter with Prophet and his GM.

"They guy was like some kind of freaking ninja!" He claims

"A ninja in a mobile suit? That sounds kinda retarded..."

"Retardedly AWESOME you mean."

In anycase, you regroup with the rest of your squad, and head south back to Smoky Lake.

It's around 9:30pm in the morning. You should make it by foot in about an hour.

On the plus side, at least your Infantry team survived somewhat. The platoon is down to half strength, but Jolyne, Hovis and Calvin moved up to the combat area to personally cover their retreat. Unfortunately the federation soldiers were able to run to the woods during the fighting, but ther was probably nothing that could be done.

>>8841458
You're not thinking properly. Honestly, it seems like we have a more friendly rivalry at this point then hard bittered hate. And without him, this war would be boring. As well, if we can keep capturing and releasing him, we can show him we have something that gives us that kind of strength and might be able to get him to join us.

Besides, I have this feeling that if David and Bandit survive, they'll be fighting together in the AEUG.

>>8841505
Bernie's been in a MS the whole time. He just saved our ass with it.

Do we have the Act Zaku with us? Tuning the beam rifle from last night's Ground Type to it would give them a surprise, or failing that the Dowdage considering it's lost the beam gun.

>>8841460
>Also since our Chest beam cannon is damaged maybe it would be better if we deactivate it and use the leftover power to boost our suits overall performance.
That's automatic, bro. See: >>8840755
>Suddnely, extra energy floods your movement systems as the weapon shuts down and it's power is rerouted

You arrive at the town without getting harrassed or attacked further around 10.
Once there you find a mobile repair bay, where they immiediately get to work on your suits, you also hand in bandits lost Beam Rifle as well as yet more salvage.

20 minutes later you're able to set up a video-conference call with Captain Salinca.

"Okay, so one down, and you've shown the other two who's boss. With a bit of luck you might have put them out of action for a while. So Lt.Commander, what's your next move?"

TO BE CONTINUED

I would like to state that Bernie just wasting all those planes would have to just fuck with those pilots, the most ridiculous looking mobile suits just blowing them out of the sky. We should if he changed his mind about the Gigan?

>>8841549
GOD DAMNIT we don't get the info either

I say we do the following
1) get fixed
2) Force recon their lines
3) tell them to put infantry with the pickets as early warning, worked great for us, will work even better for them

>>8841551
This isn't a super robot show where courage and honor will sway the enemy into believing in your cause. Well it sorta is super robot but with said super robot on the enemy team.

Not even the most friendly of rivals would let the other escape when they could be captured. The longer Bandit is out there the more sons of Zeon will never come home to their lovely women.

>>8841634
Get a beam rifle attached to our suit power supply and wait for an Omake from the Feddie MS point of view.

Hi guys, still catching up, one quick thing to post while I do:

Have Bernie learn to use his AA guns like the German 88s. Assuming that they're fairly high-velocity rounds and a decent caliber, he could give a nasty surprise to any Feddie tanks or grunt MS that get close to him; heck, he might even be able to do some damage to the high-performance Feddie suits.

>>8841551
And our team will at that point be ridiculously awesome. And we'll do the same to our nemesis in THAT quest.
We'll get another nickname for that, although I'm not sure how to fit the whole 'makes enemy aces defect by virtue of being an incredibly nice guy.' into the El Muerto Grande thing.

I think we(Bernie, mostly) have taken out 9-10 of the Feddie planes and damaged 2 more. I fucking love the Gigan already.

>>8841713
We need to get a hover skirt on that bad boy

>>8841650
Actually, First Gundam was extremely super robot. Down to the Main Robot being able to combine, and transform into different configurations.

Also,
>This isn't a super robot show where courage and honor will sway the enemy into believing in your cause.
This is invalid due to Scirocco. Of course, that was less courage and honor, and more crazy seduction skills that make people switch sides.

>>8841650
As well, Kamille convinced Four to switch sides, as well as Judau and both Puru. Of course, those were both done over the newtype mindsex landscape, but still.

>>8841782
....should lister mindsex bandit?

>>8841741
And that super robot is on the Feddie side. Also Scirocco used Newtype powers to get Reccoa to defect, we don't have those Newtype powers.

The longer Bandit is out there the more of our boys will die. He has to be taken out. One way or the other.

>>8841802
the fanfiction practically writes itself!

>>8841802
Do you even WANT to know?

>>8841814
We don't ENTIRELY have these newtype powers YET.

Though if we get them, the issue would be how to deal with people in trippy newtype mindscape, seeing as the one time someone has talked about us in it we're apparently some sort of monster.

>>8841814
Bandit is an insignificant drop in the bucket compaired to the number of Zeon MS kills Ghiren racks up. Honestly, if you're so worried about our boys dying, we should just go shoot Ghiren right now.

>>8841782
Four and Kamille had a different relationship than Lister and Bandit....I hope. Same with Judau and the Purus.

>>8841864

We get this cleared up soon.

Once we take care of this enemy MS team, we go and head back to California.

I miss our Zanzibar. ;_;

>>8841866
We don't know that Gihren is going to slaughter our own men yet. Trying to keep Garma alive so he can form his own Zeon faction against Gihren has been our meta goal for a while now though.

FUCK IT, WE NEED TO HURRY THIS UP

Next Episode:

ON FOOT!

Using cleverly crafted disguises, Nachtmaren infiltrates the feddie base under guise of a Cirque du soleil troupe performing for Federation troops. Shenanigans ensue when Nachtmaren realizes they make more money this way.

>>8841864
Yeah... I mean that girl probably wasn't all that stable to start with, but we pretty much traumatized her. With our soul. Which apparently is an actual knight of skulls... which while undeniably awesome, probably won't score any points on the Zeon isn't Evil front.

>>8841551
>Besides, I have this feeling that if David and Bandit survive, they'll be fighting together in the AEUG.
Apologised has already said that after the OYW Lister would almost certainly retire from the war business.

>>8841946
Does anyone speak (Or can pretend adequately) French in the group?

>>8841948
Our soul is Skullknight?

>>8841864
>>8841948
We should try and get her into our unit as well, and act as a Big Brother/Father Figure to her. Girl needs some sane stability. And Hugs. Can't forget the hugs.

>>8841973
I thought he said we'd most likely play a decent sized part if we avoid being grinded.

AARGH MISSED IT

AND PROBABLY WON'T BE BACK NEXT WEEK FUCK

Anyway...

We know Foxbat's little trick now. He doesn't know we know.

So I think we should head over to the lake and depth charge it. Even better, he's going to see us coming, and he has no way to escape quickly, so we can guarantee that he's going to call in MS support to hold us off. And currently his team is down two suits (Night destroyed, Bandit out of action for at least a day or two for major repairs). So either we can gang up on the last member of Team 2, or we can draw Team 1 into battle in a place of our choosing. Otherwise known as "we know where they are, we know how they'd come to get to Foxbat quickly, so mine that route, site artillery on it, and hide Wappas with grenade launchers in cover (the "grenades" in this case being Zeonic C4 stuck to a big chunk of something adhesive, and they detonate on a short timer) to dart out, stick the explosives to the suits, then get back into cover before detonation.

>>8841998
suposedly, and yes it is awesome

>>8841993
How far are we from Quebec again?
...That'd probably turn out like Inglourious Basterds in the end though.

.>>8841973
Yeah, but honestly though. Can you see Lister sitting still while the Titans go around being douchefags to not just Zeon, but all spacenoids. (And pretty much everyone on earth too.)

>>8841916
With any luck, they've taken the chance to upgrade it a bit. After all, it's about the only thing Zeon has Earthside right now that might be a match for the Feddie Pegasus-class (like White Base) in its capabilities.

>>8842037
>Timer bombs

Because they work so well, right?

>>8841998
Yes. Which is another reason to avoid introspection (besides it being boring). We might not necessarily like how this reflects on us (though if I know my berserk, isn't Skull Knight one of the good guys, like a mentor or something?)

>>8841864
...ok, I've missed some stuff here, apparently
In which thread was this?

>>8842059
If we can pull off Garma surviving who knows how that would change the Gryps Conflict. A sane Zeon to hold off the Feds and Axis? Maybe Axis decides Garma's Zeon is superior to Gihren's?

>>8841973

I said that he'd WANT to retire.

I never said anything about letting him.

>>8842089
the skull knight thing, I mean...

>>8841946
>This plan

I love it.

>>8841814
Scirocco's Newtype Skill is Level 9001 UberPimp.

So what we have to do is send Ruubens at him. Preferably wearing that mustache. The resulting gender confusion will short-circuit Scirocco's abilities and give us a chance to kill him without one of his Shrike Team getting in the way.

>>8842082
He's mysterious. He's saved Gutts before.

>>8842089

Pezun.

Awesome stuff ALWAYS happens when you go to Pezun. Where the hell do you think you got these bleeding edge new suits from?

>>8842073
They work if you're not an idiot and you set them on a short enough fuse.

Zeon's problem was that the two times they used timed bombs in canon, they apparently set the fuses to "just after they've been rendered completely useless".

>>8842106
Honestly, I see him trying to settle down in either the Republic of Zeon or some other colony after the war, then rampaging out after Titan skulls after they pull off 30 Bunch.

>>8842073
If the pilot doesn't daringly pull them off by hand in a tense episode while the Zeon guys just kinda sit around and watch through binoculars then yeah it does.

>>8842106
"Every time i think i'm out, they pull me back in!"

>>8842102
Zeonic Civil War between Garma's Faction and Gihren's Faction.

Whoever loses ends up at Axis.

So. Shall we spend the rest of this thread talking about Gundam: Armageddon?

>>8842185
Think Char would be alright with letting Garma live at that point or would he still start Neo Zeon and try to take all of them on?

>>8842089
I think the skull knight thing was...in the 40's, or something?
Damn, I don't know...

Anyone care to correct me?

>>8842185
Won't Garma's victory be guaranteed by virtue of having both us and Char on his side?

>>8842117
Jolyne could probably pull it off, maybe Zolomon too.

Ruby would probably need encouragement, but could probably be the star if she got into it. Bernie...Bernie could sell refreshments at outrageous prices. Hovis would be a fine manager and Calvin the tech/sound guy. As for ourselves, our sunglasses and rolled up sleeves would probably allow us to pass for some kind of television star from some defunct show, who is traveling with the troupe to straighten out his image after several bad pr incidents in hopes of finding a solid core of fans in the military.

Or, we drive the truck. One of the two.

>>8842174
He could start earlier.

After all, if we remove the canon reasons for Operation Stardust, then the men behind the Titans are likely to just create an equivalent to the Delaz Fleet themselves and then blame spacenoids for the resulting tragedy.

When Dave finds that out, it would be what would prompt him to help set up the AEUG.

>>8842208
Unless Char assassinates Garma then probably. More likely he'll work with Garma's Zeon until Gihren is destroyed before going somewhere for awhile and then popping up with his own faction.

>>8842208
Make that just us. Char is Char, after all. Competent but not the smartest decision maker and there's always that vendetta.

OP, I have to say, this is bullshit.

You did all that fucking combat with ZERO participation from us.

Swear to God, this is getting annoying.

>>8842106
My bad then. A sequel quest WOULD be really awesome.

>>8842082
>though if I know my berserk, isn't Skull Knight one of the good guys, like a mentor or something?
From what I've seen he's something of a guiding hand for Guts at times & he heavily opposes God Hand. That's the two biggies I remember.

>>8842223
You know...one of the seven is bound to be fruity/bored enough to go see it. Make sure we can quote sad show word for word in case it happens to be a cult comedy which has been off the air for about a decade, but people still quote it relentlessly around other fans.

>>8842293

The whole "head on pike" thing was kind of random too.

>>8842208
>>8842185

Gihren's going to have the Feddies and probably Jupiter on his side, albeit covertly.

They both have a stake in making sure that there's still a crazy militaristic Zeon out there to rally against. Admittedly for vastly different reasons, but still.

Gihren's survival ends up being something like how the US kept the PRC from taking Taiwan in 1949: when Gihren loses the civil war, one of the other powers steps in and forces Garma's Zeon to let Gihren and his followers board Axis and leave the Earth Sphere.

Also, Zeon marginal victory or a more obvious draw in the OYW means that Side 6 probably also keeps its independence, so post-OYW politics are going to have that as an added complication.

>>8842223
Next time, on Zeonquest: KALEIDO STAR 0079

Yeah apologized, we could use a little more participation in the fights next time man.

Other than that, it was fun.

>>8842370
Put simply, we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.

>>8842370
With Gihren running away that gives Char a reason to break from Garma's Zeon in order to chase after him. Maybe AEUG gets renamed to Anti Earth and Gihren Group. AEGG.

>>8842399
More like, Red Comet, amirite?

>>8842344
>>8842405

Yeah, sorry. But once you moved into the forest you pretty much started a chain of events.
If you'd opted to chase the tanks, or leave the area without engaging them (which to be fair, I never actually thought you'd do) or bug out at 7 to prevent the enemy forces who know your position from coming to you, then things would have played out differently.

So, I haven't been keeping up with this thing much lately...
But have we been able to do that newtype thing where we deal with another newtype in another place?

Forget what it's called...

>>8842455

Ahhh, I gotcha... guess we were too cautious for our own good.

>>8842478
>Apparently, his suit monitors indicate there was a spike in brain wave activity, perhaps his Newtype powers. It appears his head exploded from the pressure.

Well, at least he got to...
*Lister sunglasses*
Open his mind.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH