Which means: How much Federation planes exactly?

With decent skies, the tactical situation has changed in your favour.
The local sector commander: Captain Salinca immiediately scrambled all of his available air assets, including two Gaw assault planes and a Fat Uncle Transport which he's sending your way.

They should arrive in about an hour, depending on how heavy the enemy AA and CAP are in your area.

If we're looking to defend an area and have time to prepare, set up some booby traps.

>>9085281

About the same as there were before, the Feds still have a large surplus of SAM missiles, so Zeonic planes using radar to navigate through bad weather are shot down over the enemy lines.

Still, it's likely that they'll throw in their reserves anyway since they know we aren't going to pass up this chance.

So, Nachtmaren will redeploy to Fort Saskatchewan? What about the second attack going on further west? If I remember correctly, there were a total of three prongs to the Federation attack. The one we met, the one centered on the main line at Fort Saskatchewan, and a thirf to the west. Is that still correct?

As an aside:

Apologised, when will we have the next Soldiers of Sorrow thread?

I came up with an idea for an early war Zeon Earth Attack Force list...

>>9085324

To repeat the end of last weeks sessions:

>"Damn good to hear from you. With you securing the town, that's a whole lot less of enemy forces to worry about. We had to retreat out of Westlock, but that's by the by now. We've got clear skies and high cloud cover! I've ordered every air unit and Luggun I've got into the skies! I've also sent a Fat uncle and my only 2 Gaw planes I've got to pick you up! If you can get over here fast enough you can help out Fort Sakatchewan. I'm about to mount up and head there myself. We've spotted Prophet, Bandit and Akimbo in action there, they must be trying to take the fort before my forces in Edmonton break through the enemies harrassers. Well Lt.Commander, I want you to save the day.... again, I guess."

."Bottom line Lister? Get your ass to the fort and take out those mobile suits!"

>>9085324
Explosives in the tree lines, mine fields, tripwires with flares to signal artillery fire, whatever we can get done.

>>9085364

Sunday I guess.

As for the other attacks.

The one of Westlock is over, Zeonic forces were forced to retreat from the town.
The central attack heading towards Edmonton is primarliy a delaying action meant to prevent reinforcements reaching Fort Sakatchewan (which on closer inspection with Google maps, appears to actually be a town. Hmmm.) the main battle is happening down on Sasketchewan.

Can we has some ammo? We've been fighting the whole day already and they're about to throw us into yet another combat zone. We also might whish to switch out Jolyn's current suit with another one. As far as I remember, she's using that wierd suit with no hands, is she? And she's running out of ammo for her multi-launcher.

>>9085371

The area has been heavily reinforced by our troops for days (weeks?) if I remember correctly. So that shouldn't be one of our worries.

More important is the question how we should deal with three enemy MS at once. If Bandit really managed to forge them together as a fighting unit, then going might get tough...

Okay, here's Nachtmaren's current disposition.

Attack Squad

David: Pezun Dowdage
Elaine "Ruubens" Arronax: Pezun Dowdage
Zolomon Ringo: Pezun Dowdage

Support Squad
Jolyne Brande: Gashhia
Calvin Hobart: Flipper Zaku (recon)
Bernard Wiseman: Gigan

Hovis Goddard: Rhinoceros.

You have about half an hour before the Gaw's and Fat Uncle arrives, they will be carrying enough ammo to reload whatever, and the maintenance teams here in town are currently working on Zolomon's busted shoulder.

The plan is for your team to relieve the Sasketchewan by air, your primary mission is to take out the enemy Mobile Suits assisting in the attack.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>9085519
The only ones left are Storm, Prophet, and Bandit right? Prophet will probably have scrounged up a replacement 180mm by now, so it sounds like Bandit will be the only one willing to come out and play. We might be facing our own tactics here.

So when will the break in the quest where we take our fictional Doms to assault rl London and kill the dyke... I mean Maria Eagle before she comes for our Acguys?

Followed by David hi-fiving Edward Garnier for being less stupid than most politicians and then kicking him in the balls for being a tory.

>>9085551
forgot about akimbo. Him, profit and bandit are blowing the crap out of Fort Sakatchewan

Expect the worst and equip accordingly.

>>9085579
Oh, right. But that still leaves Storm unaccounted for, we haven't seen her at all since we came up here.

>More important is the question how we should deal with three enemy MS at once.

Is it just the MS? We've got Wappas on the ground and planes in the sky - I believe the question is: How is everyone gonna deal with them being priority targets?
How are the Feds using their favourite toys? Can we get Intel from the ongoing battle on that? How much of their plan hings on these Gundams ATM?

Such as it stands, Akimbo in his Zakugun and the Artysniper whom we've damged a bit are the biggest single danger to our regular troops while our archnemesis' machine's mostly dangerous to our MS.

Everybody load up and let's get to the Fort. I'd trade Elaine and Jolyne for the next part.

Also, prepare a "The Federation is Exhausted" speech to raise morale.

Whoo hoo Zeonquest! :D

How competent would Zolomon be at the controls of the Gasshia?

What are the Gasshia "anti-ground sensors?

"The Gasshia's back featured anti-ground sensors in the shape of a V."

We're gonna be up against their best now, including the two command tanks. If that's something useful I'd like to know about it.

>>9085677

It's impossible to say really, he's never piloting anything like that before.

>>9085722

I have no idea what they are to be honest.

>>9085622
Arise, Sons of Zeon!
Guns shall ring aloud!
Armor shall be broken
This is a glorious day...A red day!
Ere their sun sets!
Stand now! Fight for our lives! And Zeonic freedom!
Death! Death! Death!

Whatever happened to the Act Zaku? Is it still too scuffed up from fighting Amuro? If we can't put Zolomon in that we should keep him in the Pezun.

>>9085753

Can we get ammo for its launcher too? If not, we should really switch it out for something else.

>>9085784
Still back in California. We could only bring so many suits with us since OH is still under repair.

>>9085753
Do we HAVE a Gasshia? If so, Colin needs an upgrade and anti-ground sensors sound like his thing.

>>9085753
They're anti-ground sensors. So they sense anti-ground. AKA, the sky.

>>9085806

That makes no sense at all, but it sounds like SCIENCE!

>>9085803
Read the thread, shes'la.
>>9085519

>>9085806
Maybe they're anti-ground-sensors. Like, jamming devices against genius lake-dwelling command tank.

>>9085822
Oh. Oops.

>>9085722

I have no idea what they are to be honest.

Everything can be reloaded, including Elaines 8 shot launcher.

Okay, you can see the Gaws and Fat Uncles in the distance, keeping in mind that the Rhino MA takes a full 3 slots, who do you want riding in what?

(Dodai's are available if you want them.)

>>9085519
Does "Relieve by Air" leave us enough leeway to "OH, YEAH!" from the sky and land on the feddies with both feet?

>>9085869
Rhino in the Gaw, Calvin and the Gashhia on Dodais, Us and Zol in one Fat Uncle, Bernnie and Elaine in the other.

>>9085869
The launcher MUST be reloaded. We've gotten multiple Luna Titanium MS kills with that thing.

Rhino in the Fat Uncle. I believe it is the one unit we will not want to combat drop on the Federal forces, should that opportunity present itself. Everybody else should ride in a Gaw and be ready for a combat drop.

>>9085879

You most certainly could if you so desire yes.

Awesome time, ZEON QUEST.

I guess we're going to drop in on top of their heads if they're already kicking around. Though given our new aerial advantage we should hopefully be able to spot the weaker ranged and support units and attack them first. We'll just have to be sure to keep Fed anti-air busy so we can maintain our edge.

>>9086003
Seconding COMBAT DROP

Lister and Zol in Pezun Dowdages and Jolyne in the Gashia drop first and clear a hole. Support team of everyone else with Elaine in charge/"Oh shit" button duty to follow.

Target weaker rear/support elements and have Lister's crew make a fake for any obvious HQ elements. Cowardly feddie generals will demand their MS team to do magic and save their asses. Cue showdown between the Skull Knight and the One Armed Bandit.

>>9085969
I like this but with calvin doing some foward scouting and someone else to help him out if shit gets serious

>>9086076
Just make sure we have someone standing by to make sure we don't get caught in a crossfire between Akimbo and Prophet. Would be nasty for us.

>Rhino in the Fat Uncle. I believe it is the one unit we will not want to combat drop on the Federal forces, should that opportunity present itself. Everybody else should ride in a Gaw and be ready for a combat drop.

Will you be using any Dodai's?

>>9086076
>Zol in Pezun Dowdages

He is consistently underperforming in that suit. Including actively ruining it (shoulder slam with damaged shoulder - probably not repairable before the next battle... way to go, Zol!).

Get Zolomon in another MS. The Gasshia if he can handle it (it has a hammergun at least). If not, he will probably have to stay in the Dowdage, but as soon as we are out of Canada...

>>9086209
calvin and someone else, might as well use the geshia

>>9086259
i say put him back in the gouf or the act...do we have the act?

>>9086259
Maybe try him in the Gasshia then? Give Jolyne a chance in the Pezun?

Also, tie heat hawks onto Gasshia or whatever we have to do to get them on it.

>>9086283

Unfortunately we have none of our other suits with us. Limited transport capacity and such...

>>9086297
Nah, he'd suck in the geshia, mid range with only hammerguns for melee does not make a good zol suit.

>>9086307
Perhaps we under estimate him? He might surprise us again.

>>9086351
Considering how he's been treating his Dowadge, I doubt it. About the only thing it offers him is the hammergun, it can't even hold any melee weapons in those claw hands.

>>9086209
>Will you be using any Dodai's?

We need at least one for Calvin. A second one could also come in handy.

Though I would propose we carry them inside the Gaws for the time being. Faster that way, right? (Or can a Dodai keep up with a Gaw?)

>>9086351
he didn't in the dom. Why would he do better in a worse suit that's even less suited to his fighting style (A style he didn't even try to change when given a dom)?

>>9086367
>Hammergun
>Claw hands

Ever seen a mid range suit RIP AND TEAR in close combat?

Zolomon can do it, give him a chance.

they aren't clawed hands though, they're like tenticle things

And again, it is a MID RANGE SUPPORT SUIT that is SLOWER and has LESS ARMOR. giving it to him would be horrific and probably cost his life

>>9086457
He's wanted it since he first saw it, all I'm saying. Repeating points I ignore will not make my suggestion change.

>>9086499
he wanted the hammer gun, we can give any suit a hammer gun. I'd rather he not die or our unit being at low strength while fighting 3 aces in mobile suits.

if anything give benny the geshia, give jol a dom and put zol...somewhere. I could have sworn we had at least the gouf

if we can't keep zol in the dom, while he's not great in it he'd be worse in anything else

So leave Zolomon in the Dowdage. But transfer him to another MS (Act Zaku? Or back to his Gouf...) as soon as we have access to our full hangar again.

>>9086666
Sounds like the plan, though Apologized is prolly eating or something.

The deployment we have is sound, no further orders needed right now.

However, if we have taken out 2 enemy mobile suits, is there just 3 left? Thought there were 6-8 of them.

Okay, so:

You, Zolomon and Jolyne in one Gaw.
Hovis in the Fat Uncle
Bernard and Elaine in the other.
Calvin on Dodai.

Now, whats the plan for Hovis? The rest of you can deploy with HANO drops, but Hovis needs somewhere to land.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>9086701
I guess have him land somewhere safe near the base and bomb shit. I don't know where the base is being attacked from, but the opposet of that side

>>9086724

Okay, once the transports land you all load up. You see two wings of Dopp fighters running escort overhead.

"Watch out, the enemy air forces are getting pretty punchy, now that they know were coming out in force." One tech warns you.

In any case, you quickly take off, and the tech teams start swarming your mobile suits, repairing and reloading them as quickly as possible.
You in the mean time attempt to finish of your lunch, nothing more extravagant than MREs.

The journey is expected to take about 50 minutes to an hour. When last you heard, the enemy were pushing the Saketchewan defences hard, but they hadn't been breached yet.

>>9086701

Lets try and have him land on the friendly side, assuming there is such a thing and have him trundle into town. Given his artillery setup, he's probably safest behind our defensive lines rather than out in the field.

>>9086830
Get a general mood of everyone and explain what's up.

Work on entrance speech.

BRB Dinner.

>>9085173

Really? Dave Lister? Nobody is going to even mention Red Dwarf?

>>9086940
it's thead 54, this has already been mentioned to death

>>9086940
Welcome to 53 threads ago.

Fuck yeah Zeonquest!

So, um... Anything happening here?

>>9087109
Apologized is having dinner. Polite sage for off topic.

>>9087124
Failing my reading comprehension rolls...

Jesus christ. How many courses are you eating Apologised? It's been over an hour.

>>9087997
Apologised is DEEEEAD!

>>9087997
Must be one hell of a dinner.

inb4: next time on zeonquest, sorry guys, I just had to eat ALL the food at the buffet.

>>9088019
quick, someone resurrect him so he can finish running the quest!

>>9085173

I just noticed the single Accguy in that picture.

Its so adorable.

>>9088145
ACGUYS

Perhaps we should have a dinner quest instead.

Your transports head towards the battle zone, the Gaw begns to rock with the tellatale sensation of near explosions.

"We've caught a bit of an enemy CAP sir, doesn't look like it's too much to worry about, our Dopps alone outnumber them." Calvin informs you.

After 5 minutes he reports them disengaging. Ten minutes later, another wing of enemy fighters attempts to intercept you and then disengages.
This happens another two times.

"This whole area's become one gigantic furball Lt.Commander, we keep meeting the odd patrol here and there."

"Is it anything I should step outside for?" you ask.

"Nah, they haven't started pulling out anything that would warrant that sir." He tells you.

Ten minutes later, and you're approaching the combat zone. The Gaw captain relays an overview of the situation.

This is a map of the combat zone. The federation are currently fighting hard to take the two bridges that will enable them to cross the river. So far we've managed hold onto them, and take out any Federation engineering project to make a bridge with air support. But they're going to make a big push sooner or later.

The enemy currently has managed to fight it's way onto the bridge, but it's having difficulty pushing through it. Enemy Air forces are a problem, and although our CAP is blunting them, they can still make air attacks on ground forces.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>9088194
have hovis set down somewhere safe and unload. Everyone else combat drop directly on the contested bridge

How many feds are on the bridges?
Is there a reason we haven't just wrecked one or both of them?

>>9088194
Hmm, do we need the bridges?

We could attempt to blow them to buy time.

>>9088194
Is dropping us somewhere on the other side of the bridge plausible? Doesn't even need to be immediately there, but us getting in on the other side would potentially hit them hard.

>>9088194

Lets drop Lister and his team on the Fed side of the bridge, from there they can push back to Zeon lines while the support team set up on the Zeon side and lay down fire and push fowards. We ought to be able to either clear the bridge or force the Feds to commit more forces to keeping a force on the bridge, which we can then shoot.

>>9088194
we must protect the golf course

With both feet! Drop on the rear of the force making progress and try to draw out that MS team.

>>9088233
Not sure those bridges are made to hold MS weight. Especially heavy MS like the Doms. Super especially as they drop down from a carrier.

>>9088194

Drop AA and support MSs on our side of the river, we do a combat drop onto the enemy side.

Hi jinks ensue.

>>9088233

Both Bridges are contested.

>>9088261

They're BIG bridges. Ideas are being bandied about how to go about it though. But since they're part of the main supply route between south Canada and Alaska, Command is somewhat unwilling to drop the bridges.


>>9088272
>Is dropping us somewhere on the other side of the bridge plausible? Doesn't even need to be immediately there, but us getting in on the other side would potentially hit them hard.

Doable. But AA fire on that side is going to be heavy, so making to the ground is going to be tricky. The Gaw's are going to get shot to pieces as well.
It's pretty flat terrain as well, so cover will be a problem as well. It COULD work though.

Also, FYI the enemy Mobile Suit teams haven't been deployed yet.

>>9088340
The southern bridge could support a Land Battleship if you could fit one across. The more northerly might take a bit less weight, but they're both sturdy bridges.

>>9088580
Land at the southern bridge. Go hunting for land battleships.

WHY CANT I GET ACGUYS OUT OF MY MIND D:

>>9088580
Blow the Northern bridge, turn the southeren bridge into a bottleneck. Engage enemy forces and play this at maximum volume.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgm2A82XtAU&feature=related

>>9088644
ACGUYYYYYYSSSSSSSSSSSSS

>>9088580
How far away could we get? It's looking to be between safety and time if we do. If hustling is practical, we could afford to drop some distance away from the bulk of where the fire is.

>>9088580
I say blow one bridge

>>9088923
>>9088658

You suggest blowing the Northern bridge since it isn't a main road.
You get a crackly line to the local commander.

"I've got a contingency plan in place for that, I figure now is as good a time as any to put it into action... I'm going to have to redirect a couple of squads of Zaku's to cover the engineers whilst they blow the bridge. Can you shore up the forces on the southern bridge to compensate?"

NOTE: HE'S NOT ASKING HOW YOU DO THIS.

Your Gaw is beginning to enter the combat zone, the enemy air attacks are getting more persistant.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>9088923
I say we have our Arty and Air Support ready to blow either bridge if there is a chance of us losing it, but if Command doesn't want to blow one now, I suppose we'll have to wait. As it stands now, if our job is to hunt enemy MS, we wait until we show up. If we give Bandit and his Squad any inclination that we're here, he'll act accordingly. Let's get at least one solid ambush in first. What MS assets do the Defenders have, Apologised?

>>9089160
I say drop the rino, us and Zol there, everyone else goes to the other bridge or behind their lines.

Hell can't our gaws just beam the bridge?

>>9089160
Think we can pick off some of them as we go down? Or do we not have that good of a range?

Anyway, hit the ground running and get in the thick of it.

>>9089160
Or not, I suppose. Again, I counsel caution on appearing too soon. Only directly support the other bridge if they NEED it. Otherwise, stick to Arty and such.

>>9089160
Have the attack squad drop in at the south, Keep support in the air for the time being.

>>9089193

So, have Hovis drop in the city and provide Fire support, the rest of you remain in the Gaw's for now?

>>9089378
Have Hovis provide fire support, Drop the assault team of us, Ruubins and Zol at the bridge, keep The support team in the air for the moment so we can drop them where they are needed if something comes up.

>>9089378
Sure, he's going to be there anyway, might as well let him lend his firepower now while they set the bridge to blow.

As for us jumping out of the plane or securing bridges i dunno.

I'm for securing the bridges, in fact drop benny off somewhere near the bridges, his AA sure can help the guys on there

>>9089378

No where near as impressive, but I suppose that will do for now, we'll have to make a startling entrance later.

>>9089378
Can we drop onto the bridges? Have Assault drop on the one that's going to blow and have support drop at the back of the other bridge?

>>9089472
This but the opposet, support on the blowing bridge, assault on the bridge that is going to stand.

>>9089499
Nah, assault is way faster, its better they drop on the bridge because they can get to the other bridge WAY faster

Wait, aren't land battleships capable of crossing the river by hovering anyhow?

And I wonder about the aquatic/jump capabilities of the enemy MS forces...

Shouldn't get too focused on the bridges alone and risk getting flanked.

>>9089665
We have more guys on the river, that's how we stopped them from making another bridge to cross. The bridges are the only think keeping their THOUSANDS OF TANKS from pouring into our base, so even though MS, hover tanks and land battle ships can cross, they are important.

>>9089665

Hell, they probably have their aquatic command tank in the river under one of those bridges already.

I feel bad for Hovis, he has a MA but all we use him for is Fire support.

>>9089881
It's what it's built for. Why waste a good 300mm by charging the big, expensive MA into short range?

>>9089881
Don't feel bad, it's what he's good at and likes. Honestly if we gave him a zaku i don't think he'd enjoy it that much

Dudes, we do have an ambhibian suit...and a river

Snipan time?

>>9089918
Oh holy shit I never even thought of using the geshia like that.

Fuck yeah, drop jol in the river

>>9089665
Technically yes, but the Feds have stopped deploying Big Tray's and other land battleships to the front lines when they realised that SOMEBODY kept popping them like they were pimples.

You have Hovis and his Fat Uncle drop down into a reinforced town square and await your fire call.

>>9089918
We could check out local condition, put the other side under fire a bit, insert the Gashhia up- or downstream and have it poo up right in front of them with rawckits.

If the river allows, that is.

>>9089983
Well? What about the assault and support teams? Your awfully slow tonight.

The hell is with how slow this quest is going?

>>9090008

The rive is wide, but not particulairly fast flowing.
In any case, the Gashhia is based on the Z'Gok model ampibious MS, and should be able to easily handle it. Come to think of it, your Pezun Dowdages should be able to skim across the rivers surface as well if you, though probably not from a mid-air drop.

YOUR ORDERS?

INSPECT RIVER FOR RECON COMMAND TANK

>>9090274

Deploy our underwater suit, start spotting for artillery, watch for enemy mobile suits to make their move.

>>9090274
Didn't we already give orders? Drop Jol in the river, Drop the assault team at the southern bridge. Kick feddie ass. Keep the other two in the sky untill they are needed.

>>9090380
Have Hobart act as a Spotter for Hovis.

Why so slow today Apologised? Do you not care anymore?

>>9090311
>>9090373
>>9090380
>>9090399

Okay then.
The Gaw swoops over the river, taking rockets and shells, it's rear hatch opens up and Jolyne leaps out at low altitude. There's a great sploosh and the Gashhia enters the river.
The Gaw loops back, smoking but functional back over Saketchewan.
The Gaw with your assault squad meanwhile swoops in over a famrstead just south east of the bridge, on the federation side. The Gaw rocks crazily as it takes heavy shelling. If fires back with its beam cannons and a great gouge is scored in the earth evapourating several tonnes of snow and sending a great cloud of steam into the air.
This happily provides cover for your low altitude combat drop.

You're on the enemy line.

YOUR ORDERS?

Move towards the bridge and start feeding Hovis targets to shoot at.

>>9090770
Smash through their attack formations, causing as much damage as possible, then retreat.

Have Jol harry any targets she can from the river, using the water to launch sneak attacks.

>>9090812
>>9090838
These.

>>9090770
Lets take Zol and Ruubens and attack the enemy anti aircraft.

>>9090838
>>9090904
>>9090812
Ok. Lets take all of these into account. Have Jol harry the enemy from the water while feeding hard targets to Hovis. We go attack the enemy AA so our airforces can actually do something.

>>9090979
I vote for this. And hurry up Apologised. Your slowness is making everyone lose interest.

>>9090979

Second. Jol is in a purpose build amphibious suit. She is going to kick the shit out of any sort of tank assault over that bridge, plus she can designate targets for Hovis fine.

We go take out the ackack, we get air superiority. And air superiority > tanks.

We'll worry about the Mobile Suits when we run into them.

Which will probably be fairly soon, if we make a big enough explosion!

>>9090812
>>9090838

Using the cover of the steam you dash out from the Farmstead and lay down a heavy blitzkrieg attack on the Federal forces assaulting the bridge. Elaine is using her 90mm, saving the 8-Barrel for a rainy day.
Your bazooka shots disrupt the densely packed Tank formations and Rocket Artillery trucks, impressive explosions follow as several of them go up.

You dash between the enemy forces whilst they're still confused, maximising your advantage of suprise, you dart onto the bridge taking out a command tank as you begin to cross.
Seeing your actions, the friendly forces on the other side of the bridge mount a counterattack and push forwards. To your left you see a howitzer battery open up, attempting to suppress your reinforcements, you send a couple of rockets their way and the position goes silent.

You meet back up with friendly forces halfway down the bridge.
"Nice going sir! If we can push forward, we can retake the defensive positions we set up on the other side of the river!"

Leading the way, you charge back, the way you came, sending rockets down the way to keep the enemy off balance.
You return to the other side of the bank, and with the support of the friendly MS units you retake the somewhat broken defensive line.

Hovis's shells and missiles begin hitting suspected enemy artillery zones, whilst you properly secure the area.

You hear the muffled thump of demolitions grade explosives, and to your right, you see the other bridge go down.

>>9091029
Excellent. What is Jol doing?

You receive word back from the commander.

"Well, that's one job done. Thanks for retaking the bridge as well, nice to see people live up to their own hype for once. "

"To be honest commander, thank that Gaw captain, it completely passed me by that we could use the Gaw's beam guns to evapourate the snow like that."

"Well, in any case, if there ARE enemy MS in the area, there's really only one place they can be coming through now. So you'd better get ready. This is where you REALLY earn your paycheck Lt. Commander..."

You are currently on the other side of the river, no word from Jolyne as of yet, hopefully nothing bad has happened. The defensive positions are being reinforced in an impromptu manner, but they weren't able to hold a full assault from the enemy back when they were undamaged, so...
In any case, aside from the Farmstead to the south-west and the barricades, it's all open terrain for a good distance, little cover.

You can see tanks and other vehicles moving your way, but they're currently hull down. No sign of enemy Mobile Suits yet.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>9091122
Great. The zaku squads coming back from demolishing the second bridge will help to secure the area. We should focus on keeping an eye out for the enemy mobile suits and other high priority threats.

>>9091223

Hmm, Calvin's on a dodai if I recall correctly so have him keep an eye open. Other than that help improve the defenses if possible and try to contact Jolyne.

Play defensive for the moment, try and contact Jol.

>>9091330
>>9091321

Attempts to contact Jolyne are hampered minovksy density and the fact that she's under the river. In any case you can't raiser her at the moment.

You start piling on the shattered remains of tanks and other vehicles to form additional barricades, to try and strengthen your defensive position.

Calvin meanwhile scans the area for any trouble. After 3 minutes, he finds some.

"Sir? It might be nothing, but I'm reading three Midea transports coming in from the north. It's got a fairly heavy Fighter Escort, your orders?"

>>9091398

Can we get our air force and anti air on it? If it is the mobile suits we could get them to land farther our and hit them with artillery.

>>9091398
Get anti Air on it, Tell them that if anything jumpsfrom theships they are to be focused on. If the ships come in to land they are to be bombed with artillary.

Keep trying to reach Jol.

>>9091457

You call back HQ, to take down those enemy transports.

"I've got another group of 3 transports with heavy air defence on the northern side as well, I've only got enough Dopps to realiably take one group out! Unless you want to use the Gaw that's got your last member in it to the scene, but that was pretty beat up last time I saw it. I suppose I can concentrate my forces and take one of them out... which one do you want gone?"

The commander can only kill one group of 3 Mideas coming in from the federation lines. One is heading for you, and the other is heading to cross the river where the other bridge used to be.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>9091535
Target the one heading for the other bridge. We've got this one.

>>9091535
Take out the one farthest from us.
We can take the other one.

>>9091576
Agreed. Have Bernard focus the Gigans fire on the ones approching us.

>>9091595
Agreed. Hold our ground and open fire on the one coming for us.

>heading to cross the river where the other bridge used to be.

KILL THIS ONE

For the love of god, they are going to try to do to us EXACTLY what we just did to them. Tell Hovis to stay sharp, he may have a feddy MS squad all over him in a few minutes. Make sure those 3 Medea's DO NOT cross the river NO MATTER WHAT

>>9091595
>>9091614
>>9091615

Bernie makes a bumpy but successful landing, and you order the other Medea team to be taken out, whilst you have Calvin coordinate an optimal AA pattern for taking down these enemy transports.

You finally receive word from Jolyne, she's just walked up the banks on the southern side, clutching Foxbats command tank between her stubby hands.

Apparently she landed almost on top of him.

ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED

You see an intense air battle take place in the distance, in the meanwhile you ready your 90mm for AA work...

>>9091778
Jolyne captured the command tank? Damn, of course they might not even know he's been captured...

>>9091778
Fucking sweetness, congratulate her, and take down those transports.

Repeating request to have the Bandit's captured Beam Rifle modified so that our suit can use it.
(Hopefully before the thread ends again.)

>>9091778
Keep on prepareing. We want this side all set up to take on the air assault. Have jol either sit in the water to missile spam the group going over the blown bridge whie the dopps go over it or bring her here

We need to keep that command tank alive, we will have some questions to ask them and we should see what the Feddies C3 systems are like.

>>9091778
Of course we should have some men, heavily armed of course, evacuate him to a facility where he can be properly interrogated.

>>9091897
Maybe send her back to hovis that way he's not all alone if someone does sneak around

As the planes begin to screech down to supress your forces, you open fire. There's the sound of ripping cloth as Bernies Gigan opens fire with it's Gunbrero and 120mm Gatling. The rest of you join in with your 90mm SMGs, and Hovis 's heavy flak adds to the toll as well as Jolyne finally getting some missiles in as well.

But for every plane taken out, another 2 are there to take it's place. Missiles and rockets begin to bomard your position, luckily the barricades are protecting you from the worst of it, but your suit is still rocked from near misses and impacts.
In order to stay alive you keep yourself mobile, and when one of the Medea's draws close you pull out your reloaded 330mm and send a shot at it.
Your fire is straight and true, and hit's the plane on the left. Now smoking from a large hole, the transport veers off and you see something fall out of the back, there is the swoosh of canvas and heavy parachutes open up. The midea hits the ground with a large explosion, smoke cascades from what you recognise as a parachuting Mobile Suit, and from the backs of the other Medea's 2 other mobile suits follow.

Here they come.

>>9091778

Jolyne's no dummy but I hope she somehow disabled the thing.

If it runs off a generator like ours Foxbat could go bat-shit and suicide right in her face.

Most amusing

>>9091934
I see this...
but I really see THIS...

>>9091934
Shoot at the suits as they come in to land, what's everyones status?

>>9091934
Move the support back, now tell elane to get out the rape tube

Move Bernard back to a support position, make sure everybody's reloaded and ready to fight for their lives. Can Hovis hit that thing in the air?

The first beam shot opens hostilities. It melts clean through a Zaku to your left, taking away his arm at the shoulder joint. 5 meters of hardened Steel melts like butter.
The MS falls to the ground, you heft your bazooka and return fire. You see a white tarp shift quickly to the left, but you recognise the head (mostly from the damage). It looks like your old friend Bandit's back for round 2.
His head looks like only the outer frame has been replaced, he's still missing the eye and hopefully the second head-vulcan. You can't see how well replaced his arm has been.

Prophet announces his prescence on the field when his 180mm cannon punches through a weakspot in a makeshift barricade as well as the Zaku behind it. You can't see where the shot came from though, Calvin has a bit more luck. You can't see the 3rd member, but you're sure he's out there.

"Boss! These barricades can't stand up to the kind of firepower those guy's are packing! What should we do?"

YOUR ORDERS?

>>9091934
Suddenly, the 08th MS Team and the Blue Destiny!

>>9092088
Split up and flank, keep moving and don't give them an easy target. Only use cover to hide where you are, don't rely on it to protect you.

>>9092088
have the zaku redshirts zerg rush Bandit
They have to keep him occupied so Jolyne can get a lethal shot off with her argument ender cannon

Basically, focus on Bandit first, that beam rifle he has is going to fuck everything on planet earth six ways to sunday.

>>9092088
Damn zakus are made out of tissue paper. Have our artillery focus on Prophet and have Zolomon and Elaine return beam fire.

>>9092088
He has limited shots, so have redshirts provide lots of distraction while we BOOM MOTHERFUCKER him.

>>9092163
Why have the zaku's get killed off when we can have them hang back and cover us? Besides, I think that Bandit has a little more plot armor to die that simply.

>>9092163
>have the zaku redshirts zerg rush Bandit

Son I am dissapoint.

We need to find a way to keep the Zaku's alive while we engage. Smoke maybe?

>>9092163
That's not IC for David. Besides, Bandit won't waste beam cannon shots on a Zaku. He's not stupid.

>>9092250
COVER YOUR ADVANCE WITH SMOKES

>>9092281
Remirez is DEEEAD!

>>9092300
STRAWBERRY JAM COVERED HIS VIEWSCREEN
DELICIOUS JAM

>>9092153
>>9092163
>>9092281

You order your team to flank Bandit, and pop smokes whilst they do so.
You have the support team keep Prophet distracted whilst you do so.

As a team, your 3 Pezun Dowdages dart out from cover. A beam shot tracks at Zolomon's legs but he nmbly jumps out of the way. You get Bandits attention with your own Bazooka shot. The blast is only a partial hit, and he stumbles. The tarp is blown clear and you can see as the smoke clears that whilst the arm has been replaced, it's shoulder pauldron hasn't.

WEAK SPOT FOUND.

You charge in, eager to finish this fight.

>>9092316

"Only one man would dare give me the raspberry!"

>>9092088

No idea what to do but Bandit has such plot armor that we couldn't 'accidentally' the other eye on his MS so that's out.

Was mentioned that he proubably has secondary cameras regardless.

>>9092399
CHARGE TEAR HIS GUTS OUT

Be careful! there is a third enemy.

>WEAK SPOT FOUND.

SHOOT THERE!

>>9092399
Have our squadmates and the zaku's make sure that nobody interferes. Could this really be the day that we end this?

>>9092399
Finish the bastard up close and personal. I want to see him wriggle before we pop him like a zit.

He's going to be guarding that shoulder. We need to feint him into making an opening somehow. Maybe joust with the saber and aim a shot for it when he's busy countering.

In the heat of combat would we be able to take Bandit as a POW?

We may have Foxbat alive and in custody after the battle imagine the PR coup snagging One Armed B might get us.

Then again he'll most likely MS-fu the hell outta us.

Team tactics subverting 'bad-guy' genre tropes are helping things thankfully.

Hit his weak spot for massive damage!

YOU ARE NOW ELAINE ARRONAX

You swing round in a circular path, intent on supporting David as he makes his attack on Bandit. There's a spray of snow and an absolute cavalcade of fire as the enemy reveals himself from his ambush position. Your armour dents and then tears as the heavy spray of bullets from Akimbo's twin weapons savage you for a second. You fire your beam cannon (still functioning luckily) forcing him dodge.
You jink to the side, bullets crazing where you just where and then you fire all 8 missiles from your launcher as one.
Akimbo is engulfed in a massive explosion.

Unfortunately, the hits have damaged your coolant systems, and your reactor quenches. Your Pezun Dowdage skids gracefully in a looping circle before tripping over what is hopefully a tractor or something.

"Shit! Shit! Shitshitshitshitshiiiiiiit!" you announce as you realise that the emergency back-up generator has failed to start. You open up the emergency panel and frantically pump the back-up lever to generate a charge. Luckily, the back-up then kicks in, and the computer begins to re-boot.

God, you HOPE that was a tractor and not a troop transport or tank you just tripped over.

ACHEIVEMENT UNLOCKED.

THere's like what? 2 left now?

Or is it just Bandit?

We should try and capture him. Or at least offer him to surrender. He's out numbered, out aced, and out gunned.

>>9092643
FUCK YEAH!

>>9092643
>Elaine effortlessly demolishes another mobile suit.

Damn, just what is she going to do next?

>Trips over a tank

>>9092670
Prophet, Bandit and Storm remain. And a command tank too right?

>>9092670
If I recall correctly Storm is a woman named Tanya who apparently has a connection to Bandit.

What are the chances that Bandit dies before the eyes of his lover?

>>9092757
Oh, he'll die in front of David all right.

>>9092757
*Pssssshz*
"Eject Four."
*pssssssshz"
Did anyone see Four get out?"

>>9092718
Assuming Ruubens didn't just crush Eagle under her suit, yes. It would be hilarious if she did.

>>9092818
That would be hilarious.

YOU ARE NOW ZOLOMON RINGO

As you dash around to flank Bandit, you send a Bazooka shot his way, just after David does, the shot goes wide , but it helps keep the pressure up at least.

"Look out Zolomon!" comes Calvins warning, just in time as you barely manage to avoid Prophets point blank shot as he appears from the gully created by the Gaw's beam cannons less than ten minutes ago.

"Round two, huh buddy? Sure, I'm up for that." you comment as you jink around, the g-forces pushing you into your seat and fire another shot with your Bazooka at him. Dashing to the left he avoids your first shot, but not a blast from your Chest Gun when set to dazzle.
His Mobile Suit stumbles for a second and you charge into him, body checking him, his 180mm spins away. You ram the nozzle of your 330 directly into his chest and pull the triggle. At the last second he wriggles out of it and the rocket flies under his arm, scorching his armpit.

Instead of attempting to get a clean shot, you swing your Bazooka's barrel upwards until it's facing backwards and fire, the backwash catches Prophet directly in the face blinding his MS a second time. His suit fires it's net-gun from it's support launcher like before, but the shot is clearly unaimed and misses you by a mile. You toss your Bazooka and draw your heat axes, he steps backwards and attempts to jump away, but his leg thrusters refuse to ignite, your hits must have disabled them. He sees you charging and draws his beam saber.
Your thrown heat hawk cuts cleanly through his wrist and the weapon falls to the floor, fizzling.
He doesn;t even have time to react as you strafe past him a 300+kmph.

You slash once with your Hawk.

ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED.

>jimprofit

ALL THE MORE SATISFYING!

>>9092944
Fuck yeah Zol!

Now get back to David killing Bandit.

Does anyone else suddenly get the feeling that apologised is a bit tired of this arc and looking to move on?

>>9093021
I think it's more like he's either tired of the quest or he's about to kill David.

>>9093021
Yeah, but actual fights don't really last that long and the Federation is in a bit of a clusterfuck here.

>>9092944
that is awesome

how is Zol not a newtype? That was some goddamn Hero shit right there.

>>9092944
>He doesn't even have time to react as you strafe past him a 300+kmph.
>You slash once with your Hawk.
Heh.

>>9093052
Zol IS a Newtype. His skill is insane stunts with Heat Hawks that cannot be matched by ANYONE else.

>>9093052
Who said Zol's not a newtype?

>>9093052
>how is Zol not a newtype? That was some goddamn Hero shit right there.

Zol IS a newtype. He just hasn't awakened completely yet.

Fuck yeah! We're racking up the achievements.

Let's see if we can't capture Bandit alive though. Dude is a cool dude. And we could interrogate him about the feddie MS programme or something.

BACK TO DAVID.

You zig-zag towards the target, it's head vulcans flare in response, as you suspected, only one gun.
You fire a shot at him and he leaps over it. You spin in a punishing high speed twist to avoid his beam shot as he leaps over your head. The suit protests as you struggle to bring the 330mm to bear, and you chance a risky shot, but all you hit is air.
You're forced back into the side of your seat as stop short on your manouver, the brilliant crimson beam lancing through where you would have been.
The two of you dance around each other for what seems like a few minutes, but would later transpire to be about 20 seconds, looking for a shot as you jink and dodge out of the way.
You're eyes narrow as you focus on the target, looking for any oppourtunity, finding none.

For a second you seem to be floating in a psychadelic landscape around each other the eery sillouetes of metal fixtures and clock pieces float about and in the distant the faint sound of gears, The enemy, a ghost like apparition, a one armed figure whearing a ragged poncho and a derby seems to say "I refuse to die here today Lister! Not today!"
and then it's gone.

In a flash of inspiration you pull out your 90mm.

I'm kinda worried about the other three medea transports. Did they get shot down? Did they drop anything before they were destroyed?

Bracing for epic

>one armed figure whearing a ragged poncho and a derby

Fuck you Apologised! Naked newtype psychadelic space REQUIRES NAKED.

>>9093086
Awhile back Zol said he didnt think he was a newtype. Back when we were still Garma's bodyguard.

>>9093186

Oh thank god, Bandit gets to bring a poncho along for his naked psychedelic newtype time.

>>9093216
That...would be far to awkward for Lister's taste.

>>9093216

Hey, even Lalah had clothes in her and Amuro's crazy Newtype space.

>>9093186

Try and force his surrender!

You fire off a quick burst at Bandit with your 90mm, as expected he dodges out of the way, your Dowdage however spins erratically, with the recoil from the SMG. The suit wildly thrashes around and you encourage it with your thrusters increasing your rate of spin.

Faster than the eye can follow you're wildly twisted around near 360 degrees, allowing your bazooka to spin around and there's a split second when Bandit is in your gunsight.
You pull the trigger.

The rocket finally catches him directly in the torso, on the right hand side, just under the armpit. The suit flies off, bounding head over heels, his left arm goes flying, his beam rifle explodes in an impressive pyrotechnic display.

The Gundam meanwhile continues to careen until it lands with a mighty splash in the river.

You meanwhile, end up on your ass.

"Gundam's in the river! Gundam IS IN THE RIVER!" you call out.

>>9093345
Kill him dead!

yell out that we claim the gundam if its capturable!

>>9093345
Cutest swarm ever.

>>9093233

Char didn't think he was a newtype either, FYI. One of his more enduring traits, I thought.

>>9093345
>Suddenly Acguys everywhere!

>>9093186
>For a second you seem to be floating in a psychadelic landscape around each other the eery sillouetes of metal fixtures and clock pieces float about and in the distant the faint sound of gears, The enemy, a ghost like apparition, a one armed figure whearing a ragged poncho and a derby seems to say "I refuse to die here today Lister! Not today!"
and then it's gone.

Oh god it's naked newtype spa-
>a one armed figure whearing a ragged poncho and a derby
Whew. That was close. I wonder what David looked like though.

>>9093345
FUCK YEAH 360 DEGREE ASS WHUPPING! See if we can capture it!

>>Whew. That was close. I wonder what David looked like though.

A skeleton, of course!

>>9093387
Pic related.

>>9093458
I like your style, anon

>>9093186
>>9093345

Set to this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVdMQUrYlk4
(Skip to 0:55 if you want to get straight to the good part.)

>>9093458
Good. I don't have to hunt it down myself again. And, yes, that's what I hope Lister would appear as.

To your left you see white flare being launched into the sky. With a bit of luck it'll be the enemy ordering a retreat.

But that's not important right now. You and the rest of your team pick yourself up and rejoin you as you peer into the murky river.

"Do you think the Gundam was waterproof sir?" Elaine asks

"It WAS missing an arm Ruubens." you remind her.

At length, Jolyne agrees to go down and check it (after being assured that he's probably not got a beam rifle.)
She enters the murky wastes. Some minutes pass.
Then stumbling and limping, a headless, one armed mobile suit shambles up the opposite river bank.

"THERE IT IS! POUR IT ON!" you order, and 3 Pezun Dowdages fire their rockets at the Mobile Suit. There is a great explosion, and for a second it seems as if this may be the last you hear from Wyatt Bandit.

Then from the flames flies a scorched Core Fighter.

"Oh for the love of..." you comment as you attempt to bring it down. His flying is stupidly impressive however, and he darts into the city proper, darting between enemy and building alike at some stupidly low speed and your shots go wide.

"Uh, would it set a bad sort of example if I commented that we'd get him next time sir?" Elaine asks.

"Ruub, if you gotta ask..." Zolomon answers.

"...well, we got that Gundam at least, so we know it's doable." You console yourself with.

Wow, it's almost as if I were reading a book.

>>9093593
FUCK YOU BANDIT! FUCK YOU AND YOU FUCKING ENDBOSS PLOT ARMOR!

>>9093593
>Then from the flames flies a scorched Core Fighter.
>flies a scorched Core Fighter.
>Core Fighter

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

>>9093345
>gundam has startled the acguy

>>9093622
I agree, the writing is excellent. Good of you to point that out my good man. Now lets sit back and be drawn into this amazing story.

>>9093593
call the salvage teams, we got some fresh new feddie tech hot on a platter down here.

Or . . . you know . . . pieces of it anyway.

>>9093593
NextTimeGadget.gif

>>9093593
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUCK YEAH.

We need to spin this as a victory the best we can. Stop the Fed's Gundam PR Machine in its Tracks.

>>9093593
Gentlemen, we have been Troll Fighter'd.

He'll be back. With the Mudrock next time.

>>9093648
>Mary sue gundam fanfiction is great when I'm the star!

>>9093662
I'm glad you agree. Spot of burbon?

Check in with our support team, ask Calvin for a sitrep. Congratulate our team, for what they have done today.

OP, this is still pretty good and all, but it is moving closer and closer to bullshit.

This is hardly a quest anymore. There's so little interaction on our part, that it's ridiculous.

Oh shit! That Guncannon is/could still be/ out there! Everybody scatter!

>>9093659
spin?

What spin?

We flat out obliterated a full enemy mobile suit squad without a -single- loss to our squad, AS WELL AS completely destroying a fancy new "gundam" with CONVENTIONAL weapons. We didn't even have a beam weapon.

The only reason that feddie dog survived is because, unlike Zeon, the federation soldier knows nothing of honor or courage, and would rather embrace humiliation and defeat than glory and death!

>>9093662
Marry sue? Have you been reading the same threads? We barely survived a teenager with no training.

>>9093723
Yeah, but we're not even playing anymore.

>>9093458

Pretty much.

In the aftermath as the enemy forces are in full retreat, you get a priority signal from Captain Salinca.

"I knew you boys would pull through in the end! When they lost their MS team, the forces here orders a full retreat. It looks like this is the end of their advance, we'll keep the pressure on them though, see how far we can get them to retreat."

"There's still Storm and Eagle though, and Bandit survived... again."

"You let me worry about those three, if I can't handle 2 mobile suits, then I don't deserve these captain stipes! I'm considering your work here in Canada done Lt. Commander, and in record time too! I want your ass on the next Fat Uncle back to Lord Garma, from what I've heard, things are beginning to heat up..."

TO BE CONTINUED

>>9093723
We don't seem to have had much impact on what has happened in this most recent exchange though, it's just been transitions from character to character. If it persists, that would worry me.

What was the -thing- Elaine stomped while falling down after vaporizing Akimbo.

Also time to interrogate us some Foxbat!

Preferably with a touch of Lister's Zeonic occupation manual as incentive vs Incognito closed door/ sustained scream joint destruction.

>>9093714
>We didn't even have a beam weapon
3 of us have them mounted in our suits' chests.

>>9093751
The amount of player involvement has gradually been shrinking and shrinking.

And it's not just that.

In this thread, I think there were, what, 10 actual posts that advanced the story? That's all.

>>9093789
Then give some constructive criticism on how to improve instead of just whining.

I'm betting the reasoning behind it all would be that the whole 20 second fight with the bandit would have taken all of tomorrow otherwise. Though AFTER the Bandit got sent tumbling into the river we certainly could have discussed what our

>WHAT DO

would have been.

>>9093743
Apologised. I know you probably want to get the thread finished up because it's 2 am but can you plese let us play instead of writing a story?

Yeah... This isn't a quest now. It's just fanfiction.

HATERS GONNA HATE

lol.
cry when we suck, cry when we kick ass.

Forget 'em Apologized.

>>9093859
I like Zeonquest. It's just that it's steadly moving from Zeonquest to Zeonchooseyourownadventurebook.

Please Apologised, go read a few of the earlier threads and go back to that style.

OMAKE

"I still can't beleive that just happened."

"Will you shut up?"

"It's just, what are the odds, the ONE thing in 6 months you actually miss happens to be the 60 tonnes worth of giant robot that accidentially runs into us?"

"Look, we have a very long and cold march ahead of us, do you think you can spend your energy better?"

"We were lucky that the guy had quenched his reactor at some point and we could just up and walk away. Man though, if the tank didn't half get flattened!"

"Yeah, we WERE pretty lucky not to lose anyone when that happened."

"Hmm."

"What?"

"There are two wolves in those trees ahead."

"Where?"

"Those trees, three miles ahead, I think they're eating a corpse from that crashed jeep in that ditch to it's left."

"Bullshit your not even using Binoc's too..."
[rustling]
"...oh for fuck sake, HOW DO YOU KEEP DOING THAT?"

"Can we just keep walking please? I want to make it back to Athabasca before we all freeze to death."

ACHIEVEMENT ACCIDENTIALLY UNLOCKED.

It's true that this part was a simpler than the rest, but I'm more inclined to think this is just an off-day. I mean, there *have* been fifty-four parts, they can't all be awesome.

I think the problem was having two teams of MS, defeating them in a reasonable timeframe required things to end up like this. I like the way Apoligised handles individuals fights. Let the players handle when, where and how we set up fights, but once the bullets start flying it should be one seamless story until the tactical situation changes. It's more dramatic that way.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to tomorrow.

>>9093930
There's definitely been a noticeable shift throughout this entire quest. We brought it up around the time we were finishing in the Desert and going to Midway, and it got better for a bit, back to how it was in the beginning, but now it's getting bad again.

>>9093965
Then give some advice. How do you think it should go? How can it get better?

If your just going to whine you might as well not say anything at all.

>>9094009
Are you a moron? How about you read what we've typed. It could be better if Apologized took things back to how they used to be. Shorter posts by him, with more interaction by us players. Even if it results in the same exact stuff happening, in the same exact way, it's infinitely more enjoyable.

Agreed,

>>9093930

The when where and how angle is what soldiers sometimes have control over.

What actually goes down is the random chaos that thanks to, somewhat realistic, Giant Robo tropes makes for great entertainment.

Thanks for sticking with this so far Apologized.

>>9093965
I think I get what you mean. Still, the wrap-up today would have taken the rest of the weekend otherwise. Since the last 'good' part you mentioned we've seemed to be having a harder time agreeing on what to do in certain situations and the discussions have dragged out as a result.

>>9094031

Agreed. I don't think it's a harsh critiscism to say "We know you can do better, because you've done it before quite often." I'm wondering though if it was mostly the story arc this time.

BLAME CANADA!!

Once we're back on Zeonic-held american soil it'll be back to business.

I can kinda understand what with us going against Federation Aces and a lot of plot armor needs to be applied for all those participating, but it's true

the quest has slowed to a crawl because apologised needs time to write up his combat posts, and alot of our sudgestions are being ignored. This quest wasn't as bad as the last, the first time we fought bandit and profit things were fucked. We might as well have not been here

Basically, we need less. Short reaction post to our sudgestions more time talking about stratagies and less time waiting for you to post.

>>9094031

Though I generally agree, we need to consider his needs too, lots of shorter posts require a extremely active watch of the thread and these things can easily go on for 6 or more hours.

That said, for key moments like this, I wouldn't mind just taking one more post to set up that a fight is going to happen and then get the general tactics from the thread THEN write a paragraph based on Anon's decisions, in the kind of scenario that happened today, something along the lines of what was done previously when the group split for duelling aces. You get a set up for each character, Anon gives his view on how they should generally act, RESULT post.

That said, I'm pretty fond of the writing style so I don't mind this being something like a choose your own adventure, but it's true it is more fun when Anon is laying down the combined arms tactics theory we are to use and encourage.

Basically we just need a compromise. Moments when the plot is going to rush by without much influence are inevitable and help the flow sometimes, but it would be dangerous for Anon to no longer feel like his imput means anything.

>>9094378

>>Though I generally agree, we need to consider his needs too, lots of shorter posts require a extremely active watch of the thread and these things can easily go on for 6 or more hours.

This is true, especially with the time difference. The fights with the bandit may have been railroaded, (though still fun to read), but I think the encounter with Night worked pretty well, what with the choosing the pickett and deploying the infantry and so forth.

I liked it, but yes, more interaction if you can please Apologised. :D