>After a late night brainstorming session you went to bed with various ideas including MS scale foxholes, tarps and using train carriages as skateboards.

I still think it's a good idea thanks to rule of cool

We'll make those Feddies pay.

PAY WITH THEIR BLOOD!

I miss 36 threads but finally got back.

Why did no-one get the idea of using a few thermite grenades on White Base again?

Currently in your hangar is:

1x Act Zaku (armed with a beam rifle)
2x MS-06F2 Zaku II
1x MS-07B-3 Gouf Custom
1x MS-06E3 Flipper Zaku
1x Gigan
1x Gasshia
1x Rhinoceros

>>9377975

Because it's flying very fast up in the sky?

>>9377990

So's a Dopp, a F-Type Zaku, a Dodai, etc.

It couldn't be too hard to get a Zaku or something to jump onto white base, plant a grenade on the bridge and watch the fireworks.

>>9377979

I've been missing since we recovered a train with a gouf and the Dom Prototype was available.

Can you give me a quick summary? Reading archives wold take hours.

>>9378001

Perhaps, but they wouldn't get out and it would require one of the best pilots avaliable to get in past all those defenses. Add in the Gundam and what you have there is a genuine suicide mission and as much as I am all for suicide missions, thats only when they have a Frenchman to assist them. Still, the plan we have now is foolhardy enough, suprised anyone went for it really. Its not a very good plan.

>>9378001
By that same reasoning it shouldn't be to hard to have a Zaku jump on White Base and shoot its bazooka into the bridge.

>>9377979
David needs the act
Hovis in the rino
I say put bernie in one of our zaku 2's, he needs the practice.
jol or zol in the gouf, zaku zol if he doesn't get the gouf, jol in geshia if she doesn't get gouf
elane will either get a spare zaku or maybe the gigan

rolled 18 = 18

I hope Amuro newtype haxes you guys and this shitty quest finally ends.

In any case, come the next morning, after breakfast you meet with Char and Garma in the CnC room.

You try to discuss the best way to draw the White Base into an area of your choosing.

"We could attempt to force the issue with a full attack." Garma suggests.

"We charge in with the Gaw, try to get into it's rear arc where the beam weapons cant reach and strike it down with our own?"

Char thinks on this as well.

"It's risky, if the Gaw wanders into the Trojan Horses front arc, it's heavy firepower will quickly sink the Gaw. It would be a real all or nothing assault."

To your left a military aide adresses Garma and hands him the latest weather report. He reads it and then frowns.

"Blast! This could not come at a worse time!" He hands you the report.

It seems that a heavy dust storm is coming in from the south. It will be here by three in the afternoon at the latest. With the heavy minovsky particle density floating about, it's a sure bet that the Trojan Horse will be able to make it's escape when the storm hits.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>9378089
well, so much for rail car skateboards of glory . . .

*sigh*

friggin' weather

>>9378089
We use the storm to our advantage, see if we can't get something sort of laser comm emmiter on them, that way we can see them in the storm, but they won't see us.

>>9378107
Oh god, have it constantly broadcast a rickroll

Assemble a strike team of MS's on dodais to fly alongside White base under heavy minovsky interference and passive radar. Breach and board the White base, liquidate any crew that offer resistance and have the Gaw fleet for backup. Capturing White base and Amuro would be a major blow to the feddies.

>>9378121
no, have it broadcast the turrets guy saying fuck salt.

>>9378089

Lets press the assault, hit it with everything we've got in the most timely fashion we can. We have all the pieces in order for this to work out, we just need to create the oppertunity to do so. While taking White Base out of the picture would not be a big millitary victory, it would be a massive propaganda one.

>>9378107

Um, I'm pretty sure that laser emitters don't work in heavy dust storms.

Also, tracking them inside the Duststorm will be next to impossible, flying at all without sight or radar is a risky proposition as well.

It doesn't take an idiot to see this is exactly what got Garma killed. We need something other than frontal assault here.

Get on comm and see if Ramba Ral is in range.

A bro like that can tangle with the white Devil while we punch White base.

>>9378140
>taking White Base out of the picture would not be a big millitary victory

surely you jest, sir. White base made prison love to zeon, if you catch my drift.

Seriously, the best bet is to either lead them over an area (maybe with light assaults to direct them or a fake distress signal) and have units hiding with the biggest guns we got. Once they pass over, fire at the engines, we miss? oh well, get the fuck out though the dust storm. We hit? yay disabled white base

>>9378140
>>9378213
>Get on comm and see if Ramba Ral is in range.

Unfortuantely at this point in the timeline Ramba Ral is still in space.

>>9378231

Sounds like a plan, how will you be drawing them over to a certain area? Harrassing them with your Dopps? Dodai Riders? The Gaw?

>massive, visibility destroying dust storm

This might just be to our advantage. Getting good cover was the weakest point of most of our planning last time.

Getting in close to whitebase isn't too much of a problem, especially is we mob them with a number of mobile suits at once. If we strip the good parts from our last plan, we can use most of our suits on dodais as a distraction while the act slips around and slags the engines with our snazzy new beam rifle. The gundam will likely be pissed as hell by this, but with the proper timing to the attack we can just slip away into the inclement weather.

And we decided last time, frontal assaults on whitebase (and the gundam in particular) are ALWAYS A BAD IDEA. If Amruo feels backed into a corner, we're going to start losing people FAST. A surgical in-and-out job is the best plan, no matter what the details turn out to be. We get in, hit the engines to immobilize whitebase, and then come back after the storm clears with massive artillery and wipe them out at range. Or night raid them with ground troops. Or something.

>>9378251

I've got it. Get whatever feddy equipment we have in storage. Type 61s, mobile suits, whatever, painted in feddy colours, broken up a bit. Make it look like a real horror show and set up a feddy distress beacon, while our suits hide in wreckage and tarps. WHen White base takes the bait, have the Gaw hit it from behind and take out the engines.

>>9378251
Dunno, again we have the fake dissdress signal, even though it's outdated but white base isn't really up to date. As for the harrasment, well we need to be carefull

>>9378251
well look, they'll obviously be using the dust storm as cover.

Plot the predicted path of the dust storm, and lay in wait.
When the dust storm passes over us, zeon attack!

>>9378251

Too bad we can't just send Char out as the decoy lead, after all he's good enough to actually live through that mission.

>>9378286
This is good as it is easy. Use harrasment to make sure they take the shortest path.

>>9378241

Damn. Call up our old droog strauss?

Always good to have a good pilot watching your back.

>>9378279

It's a good idea, but you don't have any up to date feddy IFF or distress codes. You could chance it with older codes but that might arise suspicion.

>>9378286

The dust storm covers most of Arizona and a fair bit of New Mexico, it's travelling fairly fast.

I'm getting mixed responses some say attempt an attack under the cover of the dust storm, others are suggessting making the attack now.

>>9378279
This. They can't scout us out, and there's a good chance they might try to scavenge/run a little recon. Then we spring on their scouts with the Riders and blow them out of the fucking sky with the heavy artillery.

>>9378341

Simple enough. Pose the call as a unit that got detached after the earth invasion and hasn't had orders since the invasion of Mexico. Would explain the lack of current intel.

>>9378286
>>9378286

Is it possible we can get Char in on this as well?

It'd be good to have him on our side when the stuff hits the fan.

>>9378279
I like this idea, but I'm not sure if we have the time. Whit base escaping into the storm seems like a very happening today kind of thing, and getting together a bunch of captured mobile-scraps might take a while.

And to be the devil's advocate here, if they get away in the storm, is that really that bad a thing? Sure, the gundam is dangerous, but it's only one suit. It's most effective if we feed it aces one at a time. Let's just not do that.
And the white base is a nasty ship, but it's not like it's unique or anything. There will be more of them.
And Amuro's not even our rival. Let's let Char deal with hunting the gundam down, we've got a vendetta with a one armed man to peruse.

>Damn. Call up our old droog strauss?

Strauss is currently in Space as a Test Pilot for the Pezun Testing Grounds.

With your team currently is you, Zolomon Ringo, Jolyne Brande (Medium Range Support) Elain 'Ruubens' Arronax, Calvin Hobart, Bernard Wiseman and Hovis Goddard. Garma is currently leading this operation and is joined by Char Azanable.

>>9378341
I'd say attack just before the storm. That way we can escape into it if we need a quick out, and we have some outside factors limiting the time we can spend in gundam range. The shorter we can make this, the better.

>>9378341

When in doubt follow the original plan, which was to lead the Feddies into a trap by feinting with some form of assault into the ambush area. Once there we blast it for all we've got, right into its engines, at which point we disengage. Now we are on a timer, its a simple fix to say we now launch our ambush for close to when the dust storm hits, which will help us with disengaging our troops.

Still no idea on what we use to lure White Base, but thats a minor matter.

Any chance we can...y'know...salvage the YMT-05? It's out in this area, y'know...

>>9378380

Fffff...are there any reinforcements we can call on?

The more fire from different angles we can muster, the better chance we have of crippling white base. It's hardly invincible.

>>9378412

If y'all need to understand where I'm coming from...

>>9378367

It's more of the morale issue.

While yes, white base in meta knowledge is a complete diversion, taking it down would be a huge morale boost for Zeonic forces, and if we captured Gundam, the feddy's war effort would just about be over.

>>9378341
>most of Arizona and a fair bit of New Mexico

Oh, well, fuck.
Okay, new Idea.
Why don't we do both: Attack now AND use dust storm for cover.

Seriously, look at it like this:
Char leads an assault squad against white base, we put our Act Zaku on a dodai and hide in the dust storm.

When Char attacks, White Base will haul ass for the cover of the dust storm, because you don't fuck with the Red Comet. Just when the Feddies are on the brink of the warm, safe embrace of the dust cloud . . . SUDDENLY, BEAM RIFLES EVERYWHERE

>>9378412
You DID salvage the Hildolfr. You used right up until the battle of Midway where it caught a cruise missile in the face, and Ookawara salvaged it into the Rhinoceros.

>>9378380
Char and some of our wingmen form the distraction team. They get whitebase and the gundam's attention. The rest of our guys look after Garma. Distraction-team and Garma-team then play keep away with the whitebases suits while we slip in from behind with the beam rifle.

>>9378406
Luring whitebase is good, as we get the element of surprise for lining up out alpha-strike. But the only gun worth really considering in that is the beam rifle, and there's a lot of surprise there already as they don't know that we have it. Just whipping out something that overpowered is ambush enough. Remember what happened when we got one of those pulled on us the first time?

>>9378481

FUCK! I forgot about that! God damn it, you fuckers! Why did we do that early?!

>>9378449
>>9378449

Tactical Plan:

There will be a moment just before the storm strikes.

I suggest we sortie 30 minutes before the White Base hits the Storm.

It will allow us to hit it hard with EVERYTHING we got with minimum exposure time to the Trojan Horse, and its defenses.

THe only drawback, we'll only have one REAL shot at it before losing target.

I wish I thought of this... =(

>>9378449

While I was more strictly in favor of hittting them with massed artillery to herd them into the correct area, this will work just as well and as such I back this plan.

TIME OUT!

Idea!

Someone get the Wappas! We'll satchel this bitch to the ground! We're gonna need some SERIOUS Dopp distraction, though.

>>9378414
>>9378449

Okay, so mount a full attack just as the Dust Storm is going to hit, so that if the battle goes mammaries skywards you can easily escape?

So what will be mounting the decoy attack, and who will be making the actual strike on the Trojan Horse?

>>9378448
The best way to actually capture the gundam would be to disable whitebase. Once the boat is grounded, we can slip a few commando teams on board during the dark of night and take the whole thing. I'm sure Mr Incognito would be up for some metal-gear zeon raiding action. But launching a combat operation to capture an active gundam is a bit beyond our ability at this point.

To clear cut a suggestion..

Set up ambush.
Lure white base with beacon.
SUPRISE COCKFAGS I HOPE YOU LIKE BEAM RIFLE
White base gets spit roasted by MSs from the front and flanks and Gaw from behind

WE ARE HEROES OF ZEON

>>9378557
>Mr Incognito

I wonder how that guys doing

>>9378551
>>9378551

Decoy attack:

Char
His troops

Elaine
Zolomon
Bernie
(Scout guy, forgot his name.... <_<)
Hovis in fire support.

Actual Attack:
Lister
Jolyne

These are our two best shots, and HOPEFULLY they'll get some good shots.
Lister- Beam Rifle
Jolyne- Big ass Bazooka.

>>9378630

Okay then, go with this?

>>9378711
I approve

>>9378711

Approved.

Tell Elaine that this is HER command, and that we trust her.

>>9378630
Jol has the most command experience out of the rest of our team. I'd almost feel more comfortable with her in the decoy raid. The people flanking need need to be able to...

What does the rest of the ambush team need to do? If the gundam comes after us, we run, and they can't really makes us go faster. And they don't have any beam weapons, so it's not like they can help us kill the engines any more. Non-beam weapons will dent them, but to do significant damage you'd likely need more time than we are allowed. Ideally, the ambush attack should be less than a minute from start to end, or however long it takes us to empty the rifle's clip.

And where is Garma going to be in all this? The more people we have available to cover him, the better.

>>9378745
We were talking about giving hovis smoke filled artilery shells

>>9378745
>And where is Garma going to be in all this?

In his Gaw, far far away from anything remotely Feddie.

when the white base goes down after we nuke it's engines, Garma can come in with the Gaw, stay in White Base's rear arc, and beam cannon White Base straight to fucking hell with impunity.
If we want too.

Okay, so a Full Frontal attack will be lead by Char... wait, why did I capitalise that?
Uh, nevermind, anyhow, your squad of Elaine, Zolomon and Bernie will be backing his team up with their own forces (on Dodais? The Gigan can't ride Dodais so you might want to swap his MS around if so)
Meanwhile you and Jolyne will be getting in place, possibly using Dodai's as dragoons and then sniping the engine blocks of the White Base. Immobilising it.

Sounds good? Any changes you'd want to make?

>>9378786
>>9378786

Where is Garma going to be in this?

As long as he doesn't pull a switch like he did before.... <_<

>>9378807

It's going to be difficult to persuade him not to take part in this mission to be honest. There's a good chance he's going to be flying with Char.
Who to be fair is probably the only person who Amuro is likely to aim at over Garma's Efreet. That said, Garma's not a bad pilot, and he knows about the Beam Rifle so...

>>9378807

Given Garma will have overall command of this operation, he would naturally be somewhere in the back working co-ordiation and overall strategy.

Or at least thats what he should be doing.

>>9378830

To be honest, give the dust cloud and Minovsky Particles he'd have to be close by just to command the mission anyway.

>>9378827
>>9378827

Tell Elaine to keep an eye on Garma.

.. <_<

>>9378786
Sounds good to me. 'Full Frontal' is a bit off an odd way to describe a distraction, but ok. And how many bros is Char bringing to the party?

>>9378827
...why does this not fill me with confidence?

Y'know...it COULD be that the Trojan Horse is nothing but a distraction...

I dunno...

>>9378862
Haters gota hate

>>9378827

We really should implore him to stay behind.

>>9378885
>Sounds good to me. 'Full Frontal' is a bit off an odd way to describe a distraction, but ok. And how many bros is Char bringing to the party?

two Zaku's on Dodais, 3 wings of Dopp Fighters, a couple of Lugguns for battlefield control and recon (they'll be working alongside Calvin in his Flipper) the Gaw, and possibly a couple of squads of Magellans if they can get close enough in time.

Were running out of forces.

Again though I would like some clarification about if the Decoy squad were suppling will be riding on Dodai's as well, or hoofing it on foot, deploying from the Gaw.

>>9378969
yes decoy squad on dodai's

they have to be able to react quickly to white base changing course. They won't be able to do that on foot. Dodai's for lister and jolyne are a must.

>>9378927
Redone with less meme fail.

>>9378998

Okay so what will Jolyne and Bernie be piloting? Keeping in mind that the Gigan can't use the Dodai.

>Tell Elaine to keep an eye on Garma.
Tell EVERYONE to keep an eye on Garma. If we weren't all flying zaku-decedents I'd tell everyone to keep two eyes on Garma. Just being there with guns is enough of a distraction. Their objective is to make sure that Garma doesn't take a torso hit from a gun-anything, and to not get killed while they're doing that.

I'd say the ambush should go in, and hopefully out, on dodais. It just gives them that much more maneuverability to work with.

>>9379032
is the gigan the one that fires the big-ass bazooka?

I don't really care about Bernie, put him in a Zauk 2 for all we care, he's just a part of the diversion and not really that integral to our success.

Jolyne however, we need that Gigan mobile.

>>9379061
>is the gigan the one that fires the big-ass bazooka?

No, it's the one with the Gunbrero.

>>9379082

Ok, so we have a plan, lets roll out!

Okay, so, ow about we put Bernie in the Gasshia and Jolyne in an F2, and give her a 330mm Bazooka? She wont be able to fire it whilst flying on her Dodai, but that's what the Back-up 90mm with GL is for.

Shall we mosey?

Okay, I'm going to quickly get my dinner, and then we'll start the battle.

>>9379166
she won't be able to fire the 330 at all. That thing was made for doms, not zaku 2s. She fires it and the zaku is on its ass without an arm

>>9379172
>>9379172
>>9379172

I wish we could use Wappas in this battle...

Also we blew half the turrets off of one of the sides, I sudgest that's the side we attack from, at least the deversion should attack from

Chug down a few of these first:

THE COLONY DROP
8 ounces Guinness
1 ½ ounces Bacardi 151

Pour rum into a shot glass. Pour Guinness into a mug until it’s 2/3 full. Light the shot on fire, drop it into the mug and say goodbye to Sydney.

Also, is Norris Packard in the area? Anyone at all?

>>9379228
>>9379228
>>9379228

I think he is back in Asia with that Fop Gineas and his delicious sister- I MEAN lovely sister.

>>9379190

Your Wappa teams are understrength since yesterday's nightbattle. Plus their intakes might not be able to take the dust cload once it comes in.

>>9379190
You always wish we could use Wappas in every battle.

>>9379266

That's going to make the space battles interesting.

>>9379266
>>9379266

Because they're cool?

And I admire any infantry Ballsy enough to fight alongside Mobile suits.

>>9379273
>>9379273
>>9379273

EVA commandos armed with Demo charges and jetpacks? :D

>>9379295

Thing is, after the one week war, the enemy are going to confuse them with Zaku's and fry them with heavy beam cannons D:

Just as a thought. Even if we couldn't destroy white base...A couple of wappas loaded up with Lister, Zolomon and a few others could clamp onto white base, board it while it's distracted with MS's and the gaw, plant some charges and get away for when the firework starts.

>EVA commandos armed with Demo charges and jetpacks? :D

Underwear-commandos with rocket launchers.

>>9379368

...and thus yet more people die for no good reason.

>>9379403
>>9379403
>>9379403

Yeah, without plot armor infantry are kinda.. <_<

>>9379403

They do it in service of their god Tomino.

>>9379457
They're infantry.

Their job is to hold the line, and die when it's necessary. This has always, and will always, be true.

>>9379285
Wasn't saying that they weren't cool, just that you love using them/the idea of using them.

Also, on an unrelated point, another reason we should make sure we stick it to the Trojan Horse is that if they get away after this ambush, the Feds will know we're fielding Terrestrial MS Minovsky Beam Weapons. I'd rather keep that a secret for as long as possible.

>>9379648
>>9379648

Yeah... I'm a subscriber of the Infantry are the Queen of the battlefield and Artillery is the Queen.

>>9379669

Are you calling Artillery a transvestite? Because around here those are fighting words.

>Yeah... I'm a subscriber of the Infantry are the Queen of the battlefield and Artillery is the Queen.

You mean "Artillery is the King" or rather: "Huge explosives guided by infantry are the shit."?

>>9379648

>if they get away after this ambush, the Feds will know we're fielding Terrestrial MS Minovsky Beam Weapons

They already know since the last two days in Canada (at the latest) when we used our Pezun Dowdages' beam weapons on them quite extensively.

Regarding White Base: Make sure that this is the last major assault on it. Garma was already thinking of giving up and just harass it. Make him do that. Make him follow that line of thought.

>>9379669
>>9379669
>>9379669

Artillery is king.

God, I cant brain without food... x.X

Königin der Waffen, Zeonic infantry.

You outline your plan of attack to Garma and the rest of the team and begin preparing immiedately for your attack, the sooner you're ready and in the air, the better you'll be able to time your attack to coincide with the dust storm.

SQUAD LOADOUT

Sniping Team

David: Act Zaku with Beam Rifle, 90mm Bullpup with four reloads, Heat Hawk and Zaku Bazooka. Mounted on Dodai

Jolyne: F2 Zaku II with 330mm Large Bazooka, 90mm SMG with underslung GL and reloads, Heat Hawk and Leg mounted 3-Tube Rocket Launchers. Also on Dodai

Decoy Force

Elaine: Zaku F2 with 120mm + Underslung GL, Zaku Bazooka, Panzerfausts, Heat Hawk and Grenades. Riding a Dodai

Zolomon: Gouf Custom with Shotgun, 2x Heat Hawks and Panzerfausts, plus the usual armaments, Dodai mounted.

Bernie: Gasshia, armed with Hammergun and riding a Dodai.

Support Squad

Calvin Hobart: Flipper with 90mm, Camera-Gun and riding on a Dodai, acting as recon support for the op.

Hovis Goddard: Rhinoceros, acting as Artillery support.

If there are any last minute changes, now is the time to make them.

>Königin der Waffen, Zeonic infantry.

I don't *think* that spacenoid infantry can really compare to Earthside infantry though. I mean, fuck, their ranks must be full of people afraid of deer who only know actual terrain from slideshows and videos.

>>9379917
>>9379917
>>9379917

Bug out code word.

As soon as damage is done, codeword : RED QUEEN for all forces to retreat.

... I also like the use of codewords. :D

Looks okay

Truth be told, and I realize today won't be the day, but I desperately hope we get to commando raid the white base.

NOT THAT I WANT THIS TO FAIL,

but god, that'd be amazing if we could take out the White Base, Amuro or not. Who knows what plot twists could happen? I mean, there is the true princess of Zeon in there...

>>9379991

Truth. Groundside infantry training prior to the War consisted of... well nothing, it didn't exist. The whole point of the one week war was that the fighting was going to be over in about a month and Zeon were going to have won without ever ACTUALLY setting foot on earth.

Deep down, they MUST have know they were fucked when Revil made that "Zeon is Exhausted" speech. The fact that they've managed to get as far as they have done is a miracle frankly.

Let's do this.

Zoloman heat hawkkkkkssss

>>9379917
>Jolyne: F2 Zaku II with 330mm Large Bazooka

if she can't fire the thing, why have her carry it? It will just slow her dodai down.

If she can fire it, but not without seriously damaging the suit, that's fine. I'd rather lose a Zaku than lose white base.

>>9378738
>Tell Elaine that this is HER command, and that we trust her.

One day I am going to find out who the hell keeps posting "Tell Elaine we trust she can do this." and I will punch him through the internet.

This is a pretty blatent attempt to take advantage of what Apologised told us about her newtype power and I really wish he hadn't mentioned it entirely because it's caused posts like this.

Plus if your commanding officer keeps telling you "I believe you can do this" for EVERY GOD DAMN THING HE HAS YOU DO you might start to think something like "Oh god does he think I'm not good enough without constant reassuring?"

>>9379755
Hurr I'm a Durr. That's a good point. Although we've had Goggs and shit with MOUNTED Beam weapons for like, ever. An E-Cap based rifle is a substantial advancement from that.

>>9379917
Since we don't have the Gigan, any chance we could get a Dopp Squadron for Air Cover?

>>9380128
Telling someone you trust them, especially when we're this close, is not uncommon.

We are meta-ing, though, I give you that.

In truth, I'd like to have a more personal conversation with her in the near future.

NOT NOW THOUGH.

DEFINITELY NOT NOW.

Stick to the "Give 'em hell" style.

>>9380128
>>9380128
>>9380128

Yeah, I just sort of... went with the flow there...

>>9380110
She wouldn't be carrying it if she couldn't use it. She can only not use it whilst flying about on a Dodai is all. That's why the Sniping team are acting as Dragoons, using the Dodais to get to a firing position, and sniping from there.

>>9380147
>Since we don't have the Gigan, any chance we could get a Dopp Squadron for Air Cover?

You do, there are three wings of Dopps accompanying you along with the 8 from the Gaw. This represents the sum total of your air forces in this sector.

The Rhino is in a shit position here, btw. High Minovsky density, shit visibility, hueg target. I'd rather see something to support them. Maybe switch Bernie over or add the remaining Wappas to their unit to act as a dedicated early warning force.

>>9380007
With all the sand and the minovskyness floating around, comms might be finicky. A giant series of explosions would make a much better retreat signal, and they're something we will hopefully have in abundance. But some codewords are good too, just in case.

>"Oh god does he think I'm not good enough without constant reassuring?"

Is it wrong that I'm finding the idea of her freaking out like that to be completely adorable?

>>9380128
Irconically, this really does nothing. Elane isn't awakened yet, thus she has no powers.

Jol, zol and us are semi awakened, no one else is even at that point yet we still keep saying "Belive in me who belives in you" It's just a waste of time thus far

hell she fucked up flea without us giving her a pep speach

>>9380223
Remind Garma to be careful with those Dopps. The Feds Air Superioirity has been their best aspect throughout the War on Earth thus far. If we lose our Air Support in this area it could be a gigantic-fucking-problem.

I think we should keep them with the Support unit. Don't want to loose our big guns here in this storm.

And why did Zeon not use any fed planes anyway? Must be tons of them around on earth, plus the production facilites and the people working in them are probably already set up too.

Gotta ask the other dude for that new plane next chance we get.

Your forces finish their final pre-flight checks and are in the air a little bit after 11.
Current weather reports put the incoming dust storm about 2 hours out.
You begin moving towards the Trojan Horse and enter it's flight zone by midday. From there you patrol around, keeping your distance, but making sure that the ship is close enough for you to mount your attack.

Seeing you close by, the Trojan Horse sticks to the low and mountainous terrain, it will make air attacks difficult, but it will also make it easier for you to move in front of it and take a sniping position without being spotted.
The ship has since changed direction again, and is now heading north east.

After about two hours of tense shadowing, you can see the dust cload on your sensors, and the order to attack is given.

>>9380233
The Rhino isn't in that bad of a spot. Shelling is Kryptonite to the White Base, and as long as he can get its position, its just standard dump-big-rounds on target that Hovis has been doing since time immemorial. We've got 3 Lugguns and Calvin to assist in spotting for him, so I think he's in pretty good shape.

The decoy force surges ahead, the Mobile Suits in front, flanked by Dopps, with the looming purple bulk of the Gaw begind it.
The Gaw has yet to drop the Rhinoceros. Probably waiting to see if the Trojan Horse is going to stand and fight or retreat away.

Calvin takes upward at a safe distance and begins linking in laser contact with you and the other squad leaders as he starts collected targeting telemetry.

Now, to get into firing position.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>9380434
We keep low and out of sight, keep constant contact with them and for the love of god KEEP THE GAW AWAY FROM WHITE BASE

it's cannons can hit the gaw easy, we lose a big ship and hovis in the most usefull suit we got.

Time to pray

>>9380434
Let Jolyne take the lead on this one, she's more the ranged specialist, probably knows best about finding good shots.

>>9380434
Pull a Trojan Horse. Move close to the ground, through canyons, etc. Once we've established what the WB is going to do we should maneuver ahead of them accordingly. Also, the moment the Horse makes its decision, get Hovis, and more importantly Hovis' BFG into the mix. Once shells start punishing the WB, they'll be way less likely to see the Ambush.

>>9380464

Keep out of Line of Sight, and keep our Beam rifle at the ready.

Have Jolyne act as our spotter and get the Bazooka ready.

>Pull a Trojan Horse. Move close to the ground, through canyons, etc.

That's gonna take us along a pretty random route though. And we're not familliar with the terrain at all.

>>9380464
>>9380492

Letting Jolyne take the lead you swoop down low out of sight from the enemy. Above you, the first exchanges of fire begins as the Trojan Horse begins to turn to face the attacking force.

"This is Goddard. I'm deploying now, Chutes read as green."

You follow Jolyne down as she jumps off her dodai and sets up on a rocky ridge.
You follow suit and set up your range finder and sniping zoom. You see the front carrier bays open up and the Guntank and Guncannon jump out, no sign of the Gundam, could this be your big chance?

From this distance you are unsure if you can hit the target, but it's not impossible.

DO YOU TAKE THE SHOT

OR

WAIT

>>9380619
If the Trojan Horse can move close to the ground through cover toward their objective, so can we, IMO. Better that than just flying toward wherever. Regardless of what we do, out of line of sight is implied.

>>9380717
What direction is it headed, relative to us?

>>9380717
Voting wait, stay focused. Engines were our goal. No need to blow it on a crappy shot.

>>9380717

Wait, but keep an eye out for something (A Gundam, for instance) trying to get the drop on us.

The last thing we want to do is lose Jolyne or a limb or something to Amurohax.

>>9380147
Wait

>>9380759

Somewhat towards you, it's heading towards the decoy force who are in front of you by about a kilometer thereabouts. So it;s currently facing you at an angle. The engine block is partially obscured by the armoured cowlings of the beam cannons. Which it hasn't unfurled yet. It's probably waiting for the Gaw to get closer before it does so.

It will continue to get closer until it's essentially facing you abeam, which will be a near perfect shot. However, that may take a while.

>>9380717
if we kill one of his friends that just gives us away and makes amuro auto berserk

Wait for the engines

>>9380717
>>9380717
>>9380717

We wait.

Surprise only lasts so long...

>>9380835
Definitely wait on the shot then. Start feeling out the range, ambient conditions etc. Ready ourselves so that the moment we have an opportunity, we can broadcast our discontent with perfect accuracy.

>>9380717

Wait for it....

>>9380717
uh ohhh

>>9380908
>>9380908
>>9380908

Well, we have been going through this war with the damn thing turned off...

You wait.

You see the Guntank and Guncannon open fire on the attacking forces whilst standing atop the Trojan Horse. Their weapon fire takes it's toll with the Dopps, but it looks like they can't deal with the great weight fire your forces can bring.
You see one of Char's wingmen have his Dodai get shot out from under him by the Guntank, he attempts a LANO landing but falls awkwardly and stumbles on landing, his leg gives way and he's obscured by a plume of dust, you can't see what happens afterwards.

You see Char and Garma strafe down one side together, AA fire bracketing their mobile suits with Elaine and Zolomon down the other side. Both rake the sides with fire, but don't have time to linger and make it count. Elaine's Dodai begins smoking, but it's still flying.

The shot is still awkward, but a little less than before.

SHOOT OR WAIT?

>>9380999
>>9380999
>>9380999

WHY MUST YOU DO THIS TO US!?!?!

... wait.

>>9380999
Wait.

>>9380835
The shot will happen. You just have to wait for it...

>>9380999
Wait for it. Calm. Wait for it...

>>9380999
I tihnk we can afford to wait once more. if it gets any worse we'll have to try and take the shot for the sake of our troops

>>9381084
Agreed

I'm Amazed all those units can't take out the gun tank or guncannon,

>>9381202
oh spam bots, those girls aren't even attractive!

Wait.

You continue to watch as the battle unfolds. You see the gunports on the Trojan Horses beam cannons begin to unfurl and the Gaw follows suit. You can see them both begin their charging cycle from here.

The Decoy forces begin to get out of the way, dispersing slightly.
You then see the Hangar Doors opening up a second time. Possibly to retrieve their Mobile Suits?

IF YOU WISH TO CHANGE TARGETS FROM THE ENGINE BLOCK, SIMPLY SAY.

FIRE OR WAIT?

>>9381261
Shooty time

>>9381261

That's the hangar doors on the Trojan Horse, in case I wasn't clear.

>>9381261
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF-

Shoot the engine. This seems like our last chance, and crippling the whole ship is a bigger victory than maybe scratching the Gundam.

>>9381261

Third time's the charm: Take the shot!

>>9381261

Wait, we want that shot and then withdraw under cover of that storm.

Wait goddammit. They don't know we're here, they're busy with other targets. DON'T SCREW THIS UP.

>>9381261
Shoot. Then adjust the aim and shoot again. Start pulling that trigger and don't stop until you hear the clicking of an empty charge pack.

>>9381261

Put a few rounds into the main guns. Then go for the engines. We win if our gaw shoots first.

I say wait unless we see a gundam come out instead of the suits comeing in. If we see gundam we fire, if we don't we wait for a better shot. Also tell the gaw to take cover, there gonna start to take shots at it soon

I dunno...I mean...

We've waited and- and..

I DON'T KNOW

Hold our fire. This is the shot that will count. This shot can change the war. This is the most important shot we've ever made. Hold. Our. Fire.

Don't shoot, the Gundam is clearly being held in reserve. They'll send it straight after us.

>>9381306
>>9381308
>>9381309

You order the shot. Your shot lances forth from your firing spot. It's still an awkward shot, and you clip part of the superstructure first there's a plume of superheated particles followed by an impressive explosion as your shot pierces it's engine.
The ship twists about and it's shots go largely wild, one manages to clip the Gaws wing though not badly.
The Gaws own shots go wild at this as well.
You see the Guncannon stumble but manage to stay on, but both it and the Guntank are in no state for firing. The Decoy force is moving in to capitlise on this oppourtunity.

There is still smoke pouring out of the engine and the hangar bay is still open. You can't get a clear view of the damage you've caused.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>9381567

Which of the engines blew? Put shots into THE OTHER ONES.

>>9381542
>>9381539
>>9381471
>>9381369
>>9381313


sorry, I started writing before you posted.

>>9381599

You'd have to deploy to the other side, the Trojan Horse is abeam to you.

Move up on the dodie. Riding it low having joylne make a distraction, then attack the other engine

>>9381616
QUICKLY MAN QUICKLY

OPEN EVERYTHING WE HAVE

>>9381567
Get that gaw to land, it's time for our artilery to shine

Also aim for that wing we busted up, i doubt it's 100% and a blown engine with a blown wing = grounded bird

>>9381567
HAH! WHERE'S YOUR PLOT ARMOR NOW BITCHES!

Is anything presenting a more attractive target to us than anything else? Anything that we can hit that will make that ship drop like a rock is a priority. Beyond that, any shot we can get that hits hull will help us out somehow.

>>9381764
If the Evolve redesign follows the same general blueprints, the Minovsky Craft is in the "gut," just forward of the main engine blocks. Slagging that would bring it to earth pretty quickly.

>>9381689

It's the Gaw that's got a clipped wing, not the Trojan Horse.

Although now that you mention it, it's wings have taken a bit of a knock about. Not that really they seem to be all that aerodynamically required.

Everybody's dead, Dave.

>>9381793
True, these ships are weird. Reguardless on previous assaults on white base we've always busted on one wing. Nows a chance for jol to hit it again and maybe knock it out.

in the words of a particularly ill-fated romulan . . .


fire EVERYTHING!!!

get jolyne to open up with the zook, pump round after round from our beam cannon.

ALL into the engines. Blow them out of the sky!

GURPS

We've got, what, 20 shots with this gun. Let's be sure to use all of them.

Don't go crazy though. There are friendlies down there at the end of the range.

>>9381809

Sigh.

I swear to god, next time I run a quest, I'm supplying the names myself.

>>9381840
>>9381835

So, charge in, go for the kill?

I vote for anything that will make flying awkward and be hard to field-repair. Any sort of engine being top, then maybe slacking one of the catapults, then the guns.

>>9381900
I wouldn't say "charge in for the kill" but from where we are we can fire on that wing, maybe a few guns and Jol hasn't fired anything. Definetly keep moving, hit what we can and make a break for the storm

Advance backwords

>>9381900
>So, charge in, go for the kill?

If by kill, you mean tactically smart shooting of opportunity into critical sections, retreating after successful shooting before a deadly response is returned,

yes. Exactly.

>>9381900
>charge in

What? No, Lister and Jolyne don't go anywhere.
Those two need to stay stable and fire into the damn engines, like we planned. One hit isn't enough.

Why isn't Jolyne firing that 'zook already?
Why did we only fire one shot?

Come on, unload on that bitch already.
THEN we "charge in"

I vote we put a shot in the hangar before we move off. Chance we might clip the Gundam should be taken.

>>9381900
5-10 shots, carefully placed in the main engines and Minovsky Craft. We want a respectable amount of ammo left for when the Gundam comes out. Seems like Bright's getting crafty with it.

>>9381900

Concentrate fire on that damaged engine, hit it with everything we have! Lets pull back our decoy units and open up with the artillery, rockets, beamspam, EVERYTHING.

>>9381998
>>9381998
>>9381998

Our mission is to take out that engine.

LETS KILL THE ENGINE! :D

>>9382038
Well we might have already. It did explode after all...

>>9381955
>>9381950

You reangle yourself as you try to take a second shot. The dust clouds are beginning to come in now however, and the engine is still billowing black smoke making targeting difficult. The Trojan horse is also still moving around.

You can take further shots if you want, but shots on the engine block are going to be tricky. So you aim and the heavy Beam Cannon turret on your side.

The ship appears to be launching chaff. You move to pull the trigger, when a beam shot lances out from the hangar bay and flash of white dashes out of the opening. You see Garma's Efreet swerve to the left, it's left hand dissolving into superheated metal.
Char is nowhere to be seen.
The Gaw is pulling up and over the Trojan Horse in order to avoid a collision, you can hear it's engines screaming from here.

A GUNDAM IS OUT.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>9382051

We "have it" once the White Base goes down and stays put 'till the Feds send some serious supplies.

>>9382051

However we are working on the finite line of salvagable parts and tiny metal chunks. We're after the metal chunks scenario.

>>9382082
SHOOT
THE
FUCKING
ENGINES
ALREADY

Jolyne fires from this point.
We get our dodai moving and SHOOT THE ENGINES while the gundam is busy raping everything else.
If we don't get those engines, this whole endeavor is pointless.

Fucking anti-beam chaff

>>9382082

All units pull back! Aces to cover Garmas retreat!

Initiate saturation bombing of the area!

Ask Garma to retreat.

>>9382082

Tell Garma to GTF out and Char to engage. Also: Gaws cover Garma. We can get another shot as long as THAT GUNDAM's not able to look our way.

Get everyone ready to withdraw at the drop of a hat and tell Calvin to aim for the Gundam and link the telemetry up with Hovis, Char might need a bit of arty cover when he tries to disengage too.

Time to GET THE FUCK OUT. Shoot while getting the fuck out. Aim for anything that presents itself and god damnit get the rino out of the gaw already!

>>9382082
No one has said guns.

Engines have always been the theme. Please remember this.

>>9382082
Get Garma on the horn, tell him to fall back if Char is out of sight. Order Jolyne to unload on the Trojan Horse, while we do what we can to stall Amuro. With the Gaw out of the Horse's front arc, hopefully it can bring its guns to bear on the sides.

See if Calvin can spot through the dust and smoke for Jo and Hovis.

>>9382082
Elaine and Zolomon cover Garma as he falls back. Where the FUCK is Hovis in all of this? Have him start dropping serious Arty on the Trojan Horse. Put another Beam Shot into the second engine, if possible. Target Priority as follows: Engines, Launch Facilities/Hangar, Bridge, Major Weapons Systems.

Why has Jol fired nothing? tell her she's clear to engage already god damn

>>9382082

>Gundam shows up
>Garma in combat
>Char nowhere to be seen

I'm noticing a trend here.

>>9382082
Suppressive fire!

...which will have the added advantage of totally messing up the ship where it hits. Once we have a clear angle, cut lose with everything this beam rifle has while we start to fall back with the rest of the team.

>Awww Moooooom. Not a gundam!
>Come on. Show's over, time for bed everyone.

>>9382177
Also this. And be ready on the Dodais to fall back. If Amuro heads for us this could get very ugly very quickly.

>>9382082

No, not his style. He wouldn't feed the wolves with his bare hand. No, he'll be somewhere, just out reach and with a direct com link to Garma's helmet if he does go rouge.

Garma being shot by the Gundam...

Char nowhere to be seen...

OH GOD DAMMIT CHAR THIS IS NOT THE TIME FOR YOUR SHITTY VENDETTA.

Our guys had better be covering Garma.

BLAME THE MISFORTUNE OF YOUR BIRTH

My vote is for just emptying the goddamn beam rifle into White Base.

Beam shots will punch a hole most of the way through it. It doesn't matter if we hit the engines specifically at this point. So long as we can get ten, fifteen shots into it (which'd take all of twenty seconds), we'd almost certainly be doing enough damage to bring it down or render it combat ineffective. Either way, it harms it's effectiveness, and the threat it represents, a great deal.

Get Char on the fucking Gundam and protect his fucking friend. That's all his ass is good for.

>>9382274
You mean the ship that just emptied out (what is probably) anti-beam chaff, making any energy weapons useless for a couple of turns. I mean minutes.

>>9382111

Take a second shot at the Engine blocks to make sure. Your shot seems to get within a certain distance and then seems to hit an invisible wall of some kind, small explosions ablate the power of the beam until it disperses into the smoke cloud.
You can't see if it's on target, or even if it's done any damage.

The Gundam begins firing it's Beam Rifle at the apex of it's jump, the Dopps and Char's other wingman are taken down. He fires a shot at Elaine but she dives down to the ground and the shot impact with the same anti-beam field that stopped your beam.

He Zaku is halo's with small explosions and she comes out singed but otherwise okay.

As the Gundam begins to fall back to the Trojan Horse, Zolomon leaps in to engage it in close combat. The gundam avoids his heat rod and returns fire with his head vulcans. Zolomon flips the flat base of his Dodai up, and uses it as a shield. It takes the low caliber bullets and Zolomon then leaps off as the Gundam finishes it off with it's beam saber.
The two tumble about in the air.

Zolomon fires with his gatling and the Gundam returns fire with his beam rifle. Both avoid each others shots, until the beam rifle clips Zolomons gatling shield and he's forced to eject it before it explodes. Using the extra boost from the explosion Zol hurls his heat hawks at the enemy, who dodges one, but takes the other on the left arm, which spins him over and he lands awkwardly on the deck of the Trojan Horse, his rifle scattering.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>9382314
Jol still has her supah zook and we have a normal zook. For whatever reason we forgot that the best part of an ambush is when you start shooting the people you ambush

Yeah

1) I'm unclear as to why Jolyne hasn't fired a single shot yet
2) I'm unclear as to why we fired only a SINGLE shot from the beam cannon when we had our chance.
3) I'm unclear as to why we have stopped firing.
4)I'm unclear as to why the GAW only fired once with it's beam cannons.


Apologized, can you maybe explain how the plan we all agreed upon seems to have just . . . . not happened?

>>9382334
>Horrible grammar

Slow dowwwwwwn

>>9382334
PRESS THE GUNDAM. Zolomon's going to do this regardless, which might lead him to getting double-teamed by Guntank and Guncannon. He'll need backup regardless.

Getting up on the top deck will possibly put us within the anti-beam chaff's reach and put us in a good position to pump some shots into the hanger decks, main cannons, and the bridge.

>>9382334
switch to zook FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SOMEONE FIRE! WHAT THE FUCK!?

Also, fall back, everyone

>>9382314
We might get lucky. The wind's gotta be picking up with the storm coming on, and a gaw pulling a near miss right overhead is going to leave some nasty turbulence. Either of these could help disperse any chaff its already dropped. And if we can make ourselves seem more threatening, the gundam is more likely to try and take a shot at us than our retreating friends.

All the more reason to be airborne and dodging right now. The gundam will have a hard time getting a reliable shot at this range on something our size is we can keep moving.

>>9382366

Sorry. Jolyne has been shooting as well, I've just been forgetting to mention it. She's also been taking shots on the superstructure as well.

The Gaw fired once because it took a hit on the wing and is trying to avoid further damage. He waited too late to start firing it seems.

>>9382334

ARTILLERY ON WHITE BASE. SHOOT IT TO HELL.

Really, we should fly out and pick up who we can and signal for a withdrawl. We don't need to see where it is to shoot it with the artillery, its engine is damaged, it won't be going far if anywhere at all. It has its anti-beamspam chaff out, so we're down to conventional weapons. Shoot White Base with those.

Of course there's no reason why we shouldn't take a few pot shots at The Gundam while we do this with our Beam Rifle.

>>9382432
Get everyone out, Artillery bombard the fuck out of white base while we withdraw.

>>9382428
>>9382397

You mount back up on Dodai's and close the distance. The Gundam is still flat on the deck, but it is moving. The Guncannon has stopped the fallen Beam Rifle from falling off the ship and is now dual wielding, you're unsure if it can handle the energy requirments.

Zolomon is unable to land on the White Base and makes a sucessfull LANO landing on the ground. Elaine has unfortunately crash landed her Dodai and is ground pounding as well.
The Guntank has ceased it's artillery duel with the Rhino and is now concentrating on you.

The white base is still moving erratically, but firing energetically from all corners. Aside from your hit to the engines, it's smoking from large rents in several other places as well.

The dust storm will be here soon. Dodai riders are already being ordered to pull away by Garma, who has retreated back onto the Gaw.

You ignore this and head on inwards and both you and Jolyne fire again at the Trojan horse, doing your best to avoid the Guntanks fire.
You swing around to the front and your shot avoids the chaff and slices a neat hole through the left hangar bay. Jolyne's fire impacts against the side. You see unguided rockets fall out from an emergency jettison port underneath, they explode in mid-air impressively.

The dust storm is coming in, visibility is now reduced.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>9382553
>>9382553
>>9382553

Continue fire until the last possible moment.

Have Jolyne expend all Explosive ammo and then bug out.

Then we run.

>>9382553

send jol back

then into the hanger. once inside there we can just start firing like a idiot, or cruise right behind the engines and start firing.

>>9382553
Make it rain Plasma.

Shoot and fall back. We've probably already got a mobility-kill on white base, but any down payments we can make on a full out mission-kill are a nice bonus. Empty our beam rifle ammo, preferably while we are starting to fall back.

>>9382615
>INTO THE HANGAR

Fuck, do we have an assault rifle in the cockpit?

>>9382625
This. Fighting retreat, emptying what beam shots we have left into the hanger, engines, or Gundam since it's still prone. Most of our support is falling back anyway, and we seem to be the only one left with a Dodai.

>>9382553
Wait, the guntank is on the ground with no backup? I do beleve it's time for an assassination. Send a laser its way, have jol keep hitting white base where she can, aim for the engine room again. Have zol rush the guntank too, if the gundam is on top of the base he probably won't be able to hit with any accuracy.

>>9382553

I maintain the orders of;

Unloading all our ammunition into White Base
Picking up our crashed pilots
Full saturation bombing

In that order.

>>9382553

Fall slightly back to the edge of the storm but keep on shooting. We don't actually want them to think that they can follow and suprise us as we're regrouping to withdraw.

>>9382553
Keep up evasive manuvers and unload everything you have into it in a firing retreat. Once White Base gets into the dust storm all the shit floating about will get into any openings and fuck up the internals.

>slices a neat hole through the left hangar bay...

do you think we could get in through this, then open up with the beam rifle?

The plot's changed enough that surely White Base's plot armour is starting to wear thin.

>>9382625
>>9382607
>>9382615

Get a couple more shots and then retreat.

You continue to move in, seeing you, the Guncannon begins firing at you as well. Purple lances stab out at you and both swerve to avoid. It's impressive firepower, but his shot's don't have the accuracy of the Gundam's pilot. You return fire, and your shot flies true, but at the last moment the Gundam next to the Guncannon pushes it out of the way and your shout gouges yet another hole in the Trojan Horse.
Jolynes shot goes wide as her Dodai flutters unstably about, it's engines momentarily stall before restarting.

"Lieutenant Commander! I've got warning light from my Dodai! I don't think they can handle this dust!" Jolyne calls to you over crackly radio.
Your Dodai is also showing warning lights, and the dust is making it hard to make the enemy out anyway, so you make to the Gaws radio signal, it should still have room for you.

Failing that you could always ride on the top. In any case you retreat upwards, your Dodais protest and stutter. You think that they're going to reach it, the sillouette of the Gaw, visible in the thick dust when your dodai gives out.

Well shit.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>9382726
Don't push our luck.

>>9382726

All we do not want is the White Base being able to kill Garma and mess up our forces too much. We still gotta deal with...well, everything fucking else. Like the Battle of Odessa and shit.

>>9382726

It's not that big of a hole. It's about the size of your Zaku's hand at best.
And no, the Guntank is not on the ground, it's on the right hangar of the Trojan Horse.

>>9382750
Jump, use the recoil of our zook or MG for extra thrust, see if we can kick our dodai into white base

Rule of cool

>>9382750
LEAP OFF ONTO THE WHITE BASE
DUEL AMURO WITH HEAD ROD
SHOOT BRIDGE WITH BEAM CANNON

MAXIMUM GLORY

>>9382750
If we have jumpjets and are close.

JUMP LIKE A BOSS!

If we don't

LAND GRACEFULLY LIKE A BOSS!

>>9382750
>engines failing due to air filled with crap

Well, balls.

I think we just got iceland'ed, guys.

>>9382750

Well shit, they should pull out without us. We can wait out the storm in our mobile suit. With the dust storm here it ought to provide ample cover and protection. Though we DO have an assault rifle in our cockpit, don't we?

>>9382774
>>9382782
Holy shit I love these ideas

>>9382750
Bail off, and book it in the general direction of the Gaw with Jo. Seems like it's about all we can do at this point, since I doubt either of us are qualified to do field repairs on subflight systems.

No jumping, by the gods, please do not.

No glory-hounding. We wanna live through this shit and die of old age.

>>9382875

We live in the gundam universe. NOBODY LIVES OF OLD AGE ANYMORE. FOR GLORY AND ZEON AIM FOR THE HANGER WHERE GUNDAM LAUNCHS. DESTROY THE CATAPULT

>>9382774
>>9382786
>>9382798

YOU ARE LEAPING ONTO A GAW ABOVE WHITE BASE

"Jump for it!" You order and you both push off with your thrusters. Wtih your advanced engines you surge forwards and just make it onto the Gaw. You see Jolyne almost fall short and you reach out and grasp her Zaku's hand and pull her aboard. The Gaw protests with the Extra weight, but holds steady.

"Captain Garma, what's the status of our forces?" you ask.

"We've lost about 90% of our Dopp force, two Zaku's and damage across all surviving suits. Last we heard from Ensign Ringo and Corporal Arronax they were moving back along with Privates Hobart and Wiseman to Rhinoceroses position, and were unharmed. Char suffered early engine failure in his Dodai, and returned early to the Gaw."

Well at least your team made it out okay. You get a stable footing on the Gaw and look up.
WHAT THE FUCK. You see the impossible but distinctive sillouete of the Trojan Horse in the thick dust above you. Which is imposssible, no way it managed to get above you.

YOUR ORDERS!?

>>9382914

Answer me Abaddon. The School of The Undefeated of the East!

>>9382983
Laser and missile spam, also get the fuck away from it

>>9382914

Hush, Armless Wonder.

Zeon has victory on the field. And considering we've not only shot through the engines, but compromised their integrity in the middle of a king-sized dust storm....

Well, what happened to our rides will happen to White Base. It's only a matter of time. Tons of sand, blowing into a red-hot engine, fusing into glassy globs of intake-clooging Federation-fucking goodness.

>>9382983
GODDAMN FEDERATION AND THEIR TECHNO-SORCERY.

Well, if it's above us, then it can't shoot back. Unload anything and everything we can into its belly. Hopefully we can blow open the hanger or engine some more, or that damn Minovsky Craft if we're lucky.

>>9382983

Can we see the engine block from where we are positioned?

>>9383003

The sillouette isn't firing at you at the moment, it's either a mirage, or hasn't spotted you.

>>9382983

Keep the Gaw below it. The Trojan Horse doesn't have any weapons on her underbelly, so they'd have to throw a mobile suit at us to attack us.

Also, it is likely they don't know we are here. Try to get the Gaw closer, if possible.

>>9383035

Yes. As well as the wing you destroyed three days ago, now miraculously repaired.

>>9383041

GTF out then. Either one's dangerous.

>>9383041
In that case shoot up and down. It's going to be in one possiton or the other. Then concentrate on the one we hear being hit

>>9383058

Protip - Dave is tripping balls.

Point it out to someone else see if they can see it.

in b4 everyone is a Gundam.

>>9383058
>>9383058
>>9383058

SHOOT THE ENGINES
adviceRamba
GLORY FOR ZEON

>>9383058
WHAT? IS THAT ANOTHER WHITE BASE!?

>>9383058
>>9383058
>>9383058
>>9383058

ORBITAL SAT NAVIGATION! NOW!

THEY HAVE A NEW ONE!?!?!?!?!

>>9382992

WINDS OF THE FAIL!

>>9383041

lets steal Amuro's move, Final Shooting up into white base.

>>9382983
GET THE FUCK OUT OF THERE!

Bring Garma and Jol and go meet up at the Rhino.

>>9383058
what?

Wait. There couldn't be...

I mean, no. That's just not possible. That's just not fucking possible.

>...And the white base is a nasty ship, but it's not like it's unique or anything. There will be more of them.

Dammit. I just had to go and something like that didn't I? Ugh. If were not seeing things, and that IS really above us, guns are the least of our worries. That thing can probably gundam-bomb us if it sees where we are. We do not want a gundam crawling around on our ship.

And on the bright side, if it is right above us, we have a nice shot of both its engines AND the Minovsky Craft. Anyone up for more ship kills?

>>9383058

oh shit its either a hologram or bandit is coming to fuck our shit, then us while whispering how pitiful we were and how lousy our ass is on his dick while we cry for forgiveness enjoying it all the while because we are really fucked up people

who fucking cares if there's a 2nd white base?

Put a beam rifle shot into it's engines too, goddamnit.
Hell, we might actually DO something this time.
either it gets shot up, or it's a mirage.
Nachtmaren needs to stop fucking around. Have we forgotten how we earned our name? Have we given the Feddies license to put fear into our hearts? What kind of soldiers are we?

Shoot it. Now.

>>9383073

"Uh, can anyone else see that directly above us?" You ask.

"See wha-HOLY FUCK" Jolyne supplies handily encouraging you that no you are not tripping balls.

"Can I get confirmation on the Trojan Horses location?" You ask.

"We lost contact 20 seconds ago, but we've now got basic visual contact with the bogey! We're bugging out, get a couple of hits if you can!"

"Roger!"

The Gaw surges ahead and both you and Jolyne aim. Jolynes Bazooka shot impacts against what looks to be a slightly different model of carrier to the Trojan as the light from the blast illuminates it.

You pull the trigger on your beam rifle only to have the computer send up a great big INSUFFICIENT AMMO, INSUFFICIENT ENERGY warnings.
You recheck the weapon, you remove and reattatch the beam magazine, this deals with the Insufficient Ammo warning, but not the Insufficient energy.
You swap hands, that deals with it.
By this point however you've moved to far away and have lost sight of the enemy, you fire at the general direction and are rewarded with the sight of your beam shot slicing off a radar spike above the bridge section.

And then you're gone.

"Sir, was that a SECOND Trojan Horse?" Jolyne asks you.

"Fuck, it probably was wasn't it? Looks like Jaburo's been busy since we visited."

Full speed retreat.

Blast it with everything we have left in the beam rifle as we retreat.

>>9383231

"Sir Sir! Nachtmaren is right below us! What should we do sir?"
"But that's impossible! Iw tould take some kind of tactical ge-"
"LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRR!!!!"

>>trollface.jpg

>>9383231

In that case....AIM FOR THE ENGINES. GODDAMN, THEY SHALL HAVE TWO SHIPS IN DIRE NEED OF REPAIR.

GREY PHANTAMU?!

FFFFFFFF

>>9383278
If it was just us it would be fine but above all GARMA MUST BE PROTECTED OR ZEON WILL LOSE.

Once the white base is mass produced.....

FUCK CUNT. AND WE WERE TOLD THAT THEY'D SWITCH OVER TO BUILDING PEGASUS CARRIERS.

Air superiority plus flying GANDAM Carriers - We're so fucked now.

>>9383296
Or:
The SCVA-72 Thoroughbred was a Pegasus class assault carrier first seen in the Gundam Manga, From Place Beyond the Blaze. The Thoroughbred first saw service when it was launched from Jaburo in November of UC 0079. Assigned to the 16th Autonomous Corps it was launched as one of 4 decoy ships in order to guard the rear of the Earth Federation Forces main fleet. To accomplish this, the Thoroughbred was given two Gundams piloted by ace pilots Ford Romfellow and veteran Lusse Kessel.

FFFFFFFFF

>>9383335

>>9383344
Oh please there is no way gundam units RX-78-4 and RX-78-5 are already made.

in b4 I'm wrong and the portable megaparticle cannon is properly finished

>>9383344
oh goddamnit

If apologized pulled one over on us I'm going to be so pissed.
Fuck, we weren't even fighting Amuro, this isn't even the real white base. Noooo.

Explains why zoloman is still alive though, after tango'ing with the gundam up close.

We have so fucked over the time line. At least this new one cant send comunications

Well, it seems we succeeded in displaying our great tactical genius and were able to knock out one of the most heavy plot armored ships in the entire war.

...Just in time for it's twin brother to come running to it's rescue, leaving us just barely breaking even. Unless you count all the air support and zakus we lost, and the squad members currently unaccouted for in a massive fucking sandstorm who may or may not know to be keeping hidden from the fully operational warship that's prowling around. In which case I don't think we came out ahead at all.

We better get some mass production beam rifles down here soon otherwise the situation on earth is going to get very uncomfortable for us.

OMAKE

The dust obscured everything, but Amuro could just make out the registration details of the other ship as it pulled alongside: MSC-06/LMSD-77 Stallion.
It then extended a docking tube, normally the sort of thing you'd only see used in space.
"Heh, looks like their commanding officer is a real delicate type huh Amuro?" Kai jibed beside him.
"If he's bringing us more supplies, he can be as delicate as he likes" Frau stated.

The tube connected with the White Bases docking port and after about minute the door opened to reveal Matilda Ajan.

Kai whistled.

Bright saluted, her and they exchanged greetings.
"It's good to see a friendly face, we've been wandering about Zeon territory for a while now. Are you here to resupply us?"

Matilda nodded. "Yes, I'm here under orders of General Revil to take your non-combatants, and to also supply you with replacement parts and repair equipment, but out here in the middle of a dust storm isn't the best place for repair work, can the White Base still move?"

"We've taken heavy damage, but we still have mobility."

"Good, we'll transfer the refugees and begin moving onto a better spot for repair work."

"Roger! I must say though, it's suprising to see another Lieutenant in command of a Pegasus class ship."

She blushes.

"I'm only the acting Captain, Captain Synapse was taken ill with food poisoning yesterday, but he's expected to make a full recovery..."

"Well Kai... when you're right, you're right." Amuro states.

>>9383284
i KNOW bandit got to be there

>>9383533
'Dem fucking feddies man.

>>9383533
>>9383533
>>9383533

Aww Synapse... :3

>>9383533
how'd they even find them in this storm. Also we should turn the gaw around and ass rape the both of them

>>9383392
>Explains why zoloman is still alive though, after tango'ing with the gundam up close.
No. Zol is a CQC/heat hawk throwing machine.

>>9383533

Fuuuck.

>Captain Synapse

Fuck yes your dub voice is manly

>>9383533
>>Captain Synapse

Aw jeez.

>>9383533
God. Dammit.

>>9383553

It's unlikely you only just saw him off yesterday afternoon in Canada.
Sleggar, Burning and the Immortal 4th is more likely though.

If I knew how to do so, I'd cook up a...

"Lister messes with the plot"

*image of white base"

"Come up with new plot armor"

...type of image.

we need to have a temporary safe fire. During this time David needs to meet Amuro, we want to get some ideas in his head. Ideas about how Zeon won't stop attacking White Base and his friends. Tell him how it was for Mastodon Battalion and how it is now, the federation still sending units after us. we want him to either leave white base or falter during our next attack.

>>South Burning

FFFF going by Giren's Ambition he's like the best pilot in the Federation.

>>9383533
>"We've taken heavy damage, but we still have mobility."

So that thing's got enough redundancy to fly on one engine. Damn it. I was hoping we could at least get a mobility-kill out of all this. Next time, beam rifles for everyone, and no one stops shooting until the reactor gives up the mastodon treatment.

At least no one died. That's an achievement.

But now we need a plan to deal with TWO of these things tooling around the southwest. And now that whitebase has made official contact with Feddie command it just might start moving somewhere with PURPOSE instead of wandering all over the map.

If I were a pair of Pegasus class cruisers with a handful of aces in gundams, where could I go to cause the most damage?

>>9383764
>And now that whitebase has made official contact with Feddie command it just might start moving somewhere with PURPOSE instead of wandering all over the map

no it aint. we blew off the other ships comm dish

>If I were a pair of Pegasus class cruisers with a handful of aces in gundams, where could I go to cause the most damage?

Where would they not cause the most damage? Fucking Gundams are almost unkillable.

>>9383705

I think Sleggar might have something to say about that if were going by straight up GG stats.
Him and Yuu Kajima in any case.

Anyway, your Gaw continues on it's way struggling through the thick dust cloud as it attempts to use it's GPS to find a safe landing zone, but without proper sattelite contact the onboard navigation computer has to make best guesses.
In theory the plane could fly indefinately, but those are some worrying sounds coming from the planes engines.

"What do you think David? Should we try for the base, or make a for an emergency landing nearby and wait the dust storm out?" Garma asks you.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>9383799
Land

>>9383799
Lets try getting out of the dust cloud and then we can decide from there. Out of interest, where is the Rhino and the rest of the unit in relation to where we are?

>>9383780
That new ship will be talking to white base, in addition to the resupply and repair work they'll need to do to clean up after our raid. That second ship was likely dispatched to come break white base out of the zeon rut it got stuck in recently, and might as well have updated orders on board for what whitebase is supported to be doing to ruin our day.

>>9383863

Behind you by a fair margin. Being on the ground makes it easier to navigate though somewhat, and it's expected that they're making their way to a nearby supply depot.
In fact, you aren't THAT far away from the secret base where the feds were testing out the Assault Guntank some months ago, theres a good chance they could make it there, hole up and then walk up the train tracks back to a friendly base.

>>9383799
whatever direction the dust storm is travelling in, bank and head opposite of that.

Once we're clear of the dust and able to re-establish GPS connection, get the distance to the nearest base.
We can decide if we want to try for it after we know esactly where and how far away we are.

>>9383904
Still this one doesn't seem nearly as sturdy and white base cant suddenly become 100%. We blew up an engine, i doubt the other ship just brought spare engines. reguardless we keep ambushing them and take out the engines and we'll be fine. if they're grounded we win

>>9383911
Would the area be large enough for an emergency stop? The Gaw would probably have an easier time of it if we wern't onboard.

>>9383919

It's a huge dust storm, it covers the entire state. You could try to fly above it, but if your engines conk out whilst your THAT high...

>>9383934

A quick scan of the nearby area reveal a large relatively flat expanse that you could probably safely land in, if a little roughly. You may want to step off before it tries it.

>>9383975

flat expanse it is.

>>9383975
Lets make a quick landing then and get a few things off the Gaw so it can get back to base faster, we'll hoof it with Zoloman, Maybe we can get Garma to come with us so we can chat a bit.

>>9383975

Righto. Bring it in for landing, then.

Have those as can, hop off in their MSes before it attempts it.

>>9383975
uhh, actually, if your engines "conk out" the more altitude you have, the better off you are. That's just a general aerodynamic property of a lift-generating wing.

Glide Ratio and all that.

Just saying, altitude, for an airplane, is never a bad thing so long as that airplanes superstructure remains intact.

>>9383911
I vote for heading to the secret base.

Also: You're doing a great job today, Apoligized. Your break must have done you well.

>>9384053
We're down a wing and...well...have you SEEN a gaw? the It's amazing it can fly

>310 posts and 58 image replies omitted. Click Reply to view.

I think we're autosaging, chaps.

>>9384067
the wing is just damaged, right?
I mean if the wing wasn't there any more this thing wouldn't be flying period.

either way, i say we make for the flat spot and try a slow climb up out of the dust storm at cruise speed. We don't want to strain the engines any more than we have to with all this extra weight.

also, somebody should probably tell our homeboys on the ground where we are headed so they can meet us there, if that's possible.

>>9384058

Seconded, on both counts. Incidentally, what's the date?

>>9384019
>>9384018
>>9384028

You suggest that it would be best to land and to wait the dust storm out. The Gaw moves off it's flight path and begins to descend, at a reasonably height you, Jolyne all jump off the plane and make your landing. Making a blind air drop is a trickier maneouver than you thought, and although your landing is a little heavy, you're suit takes it without trouble.

If anything it reminds you of your first landing at the start of the war. Jolyne lands successfully next to you and you begin trying to trace back to the Gaw.

The radar signal is spotty due to minovsky particles, but after about 10 minutes of walking you manage to find the shallow gouge that the Gaw must have made whilst landing, and follow that for about kilomoeter to catch up with the landed Gaw. It seems a little worse for wear, but otherwise in one piece.
Char's Zaku is already outside, and the techs are inviting your suits inwards so that they can get checked out.

You send them in, taking the oppourtunity to get some food as you dismount. You are met with Captain Garma who is also working on his Efreet.

>>9384053

a gaw is like an eggplant in the sky with the base in the front, and the wings are giant masses off aerodynamic metal with 3 jets on each wing

>>9384125
Invite Garma for some drinks with the Nachtmaren Unit when we have some free time.

Also if we see Char we should jest about his constant bad luck and timing.

>>9384058

I'm feeling better today it must be said. I don't know why, just am.

Oh, and I'm probably going to keep with cutting down on the number of sessions I run per week. 3 was a bit much.

The date? Unless someone tells me otherwise, It's the first of October.

>>9384183
Good stuff, so will it be one or two threads a week?

>>9384128
yeah, I know what a GAW looks like.

Engines don't provide lift, wings provide lift.
The GAW has huge wings, so it must have HUGE LIFT.

Seriously though, from the anime I can tell you that the GAW has extremely high-aspect wings( tall, very wide wingspan, but relatively short from leading to trailing edge). Which means it generates massive lift at low speeds.

However, given the size and weight of the fuselage, it probably has the glide ratio of a rock tied to a paper airplane. All I am saying is that if the engines all suddenly gave out, the thing would still be capable of a crash landing. It wouldn't be insta-GAWs fall, everyone dies.

>>9384128

It's a lot like the F4 Phantom in that respect.

>>9384174

You greet Garma and offer him a bottled drink which he gladly takes.

"Unimaginable, a second Trojan Horse." He says at length.
You agree with him.
"It's hard to believe, especially after the damage we inflicted on Jaburo's ship building capacties."

"Clearly David we have entered a critical point in the war now. I think it's time to start preparing for a second attack on Jaburo."

"Well need a new ruse to get inside. They're going to be prepared fro drilling units by now."

"Well David if you think of anything, my door is always open."

You see the techs attempting to canabalise a spare Zaku arm onto Garma's Efreet. You grab a loudhailer.

"THAT'S NOT GOING TO WORK. THE EFREET HAS A DIFFERENT POWER REGULATION NETWORK THAN A ZAKU!" You turn to Garma.

"Do you mind?" you ask.

"Please."

You move forward and begin refitting various spare parts into a replacement arm.

>>9384221

This.

Tommorow I'm hosting a 4chan multiplayer game of SotS. We'll be using the Scenario that has 6 of us Vs a genocidal AI. Should be fun.

>>9384298
wow Garma's techs are retarded.

So, plans for attacking jaburo...hmm. I know! MASS PRODUCED BIG ZAMS

>>9384362

better idea lets drop Solomon fortress on it!

>>9384331
When and what version cause I want in!

Whilst you work on the arm, the tech who are working on your suit come up to see you.

"We worked out what went wrong with the Beam rifle. Basically, you got dust in the connectors between the rifle and the magazine, and dust between the power linkages in your Act Zaku's hands and the rifle."

"Dust?" You ask incredulously.

"It's EVERYWHERE at the moment, and don;t forget that your Act Zaku has received only minimal refits for ground combat. Anyway, we've added some basic dust guards so you shouldn't get that problem again. Not that we should be seeing much action at the moment."

You finish up and watch as they fit the arm into the Efreet. Luckily it works.

"I must say, you've really gotten better at engineering David." Garma compliments.

"Well, I've been working with a lot of prototypes, so I've just sort of picked this stuff up as I go. Plus I was the test pilot for th Efreet back on Pezun, so I've taken a look at it's specs."

"Well, according to weather reports, this dust storm is heading North East East, but wont be gone for at least three more hours. Any ideas on what we should do until then?" He asks you.

>>9384406

No!

No more dropping anything on anything. It never works and it just makes us look bad when we wipe out 60% of the population of earth. Again.

>>9384298
Some kind of huge Beam weapon would be nice. Attach it to the outer haven, Blast a shitload of hols into Jaburo and then flood the place with forces. Speaking of flood a river runs through Jaburo, right? How about poisoning it with a narcotic of some kind to make everyone who drinks the water freak out?

>>9384446
Write papers, tell him how awesome infantry are. Also coment on how well this assault went and how we should probably stick to this kind of attack from now on

>>9384444

1.7.2 with ANY. I'll probably have a thread here we'll be reporting back to.
SotS actually has a pretty interesting multiplayer component where players can swap over with other people waiting in the chatroom, or can switch to AI controls whilst they go off and have their lunch or something.

Well, apart from me who as the host has to keep this running from start to finish.
God, I hope my puny english internets can handle this.

>>9384474
How about a beam weapon the size of a colony? Would that work?

>>9384446
Tell him that we need upgraded air support, what we have now isn't cutting it and is just getting slaughtered.

>>9384501
Sweet then you can count me in. I'll see if I can make it.

>>9384510

Given that Gihren began converting a colony into a giant Carbon Gas Laser, at some point in July, I'd say your plan has merit.

>>9384579
Which was, in fact, exactly what I was referring to =p

>>9384579
Sounds like a plan.

>Speaking of flood a river runs through Jaburo, right?

You ever read Romance of the Three Kingdoms?

RIVER ATTACK TIEM! WE HAVE MORE WATER THAN YOU HAVE TROOPS HAHAHAHA!

>>9384516
>>9384477

You discuss mixed unit doctrine with him over a late lunch. He agrees with you and presents some of his findings after using some of your suggestions.
He's finding that infantry is highly useful, but due to Zeons manpower problems, finding enough is always going to be problematic. Using them as dragoons and force recon elements seems to work well and preserve their numbers though.
Tanks backing up Mobile Suits is a good combination, considering that the heavy gun on the Magellan has better range than it's Federation counterpart.

As for a shortage of planes, Garma says that it's the manpower problems yet again, Dopps are less survivable than Mobile Suits, plus they require more training, so that every loss is even harder to replace.
On the subject of Aeroplane design, Garma still insists that the basic Dopp design is sound for combat in a post Minovsky environment, but admits that variants with heavier armaments are warrented.

>Tell him that we need upgraded air support, what we have now isn't cutting it and is just getting slaughtered.

We sorta NEED FUCKING BEAM GUNS.

We need them yesterday. They're pretty much the only weapon that can punch holes into the White Base and they're building more of these.

>>9384406

Nice, but....no.

What we need is to capture one of those Trojans, mostly intact. Learn it inside and out, where it'll fall apart from the least amount of effort.

If that means the second Trojan tries to defend the first while we're assaulting it, it'll force it to stay still.

Where we can wound it with another sniper attack. Bleed them to death by inches.

>>9384675
And we take yet another step towards a brighter Zeon!

>>9384605

I was taking the axis drop farther by using Solomon. Char would agree its a good plan.

>>9384454
Well, if they can lose 84% of their population and still manage to kick our asses, then maybe we just deserve to lose.

>>9384623
Didn't the operational plan for the colony laser have "massive genocide" as the step one?

>>9384675
Ask how beam weaponry is progressing and ask him to get a rush on it.

>>9384723
As long as part of that massive genocide involves Jaburo becoming a glass paved parking lot I don't think we want to worry about it.

>>9384723
>Didn't the operational plan for the colony laser have "massive genocide" as the step one?

Massive Patricide actually.

>that it's the manpower problems yet again

Well, the only way to migitate that is by increasing the ammout of firepower throughout the whole army. Maybe improving the IFF and tracking ability of targeting software far enough that we can put two guns to use on two different targets instead of a single one. Maybe mix units better, providing more of them with guns that work as force multipliers - like those of the Hilddorf.
And maybe make an upgrade package from the sensor equippment of the Flipper. We're gonna stand a better chance if we can see them before they find us.

Dammit. Here I am late to the party again.
apologised I sure wish you'd get a quest specific email since I (or anyone) cant really contact anyone through the week with plans that could be usefull on Fridays.
(You know, when those of us in the Americas are still at work. -_-; )


>Plan that I've been trying to relay this past week
>Spread out decoy units ahead of Trojan Horse's projected course armed with Magella tops, camo nets and smoke grenades.
>Each several Km appart
>Use local telephone lines to network all MS to a command center.
>upon spotting WB signal command, open fire with Magella top at max range and launch all smoke.
>Hovis lands additional smoke in area.
>Komusai shuttle launches headed for area with David and Zol/or/Char
>Local MS retreats under cover of smoke once WB launches Gundam. Get's picked up by Dodai.
>Hovis lands live fire in area as additional distraction making it look like another full assault is incoming.
>Komusai team HANO drops onto WB, disables engine(s)
>All units GTFO

>>9384788

Well, to be fair, the Hildolfr HAS entered a limited production run, with an intent for base defence.
The Dom's and Rick Doms have entered production early and on a larger scale, the Jaburo attack MS were used successfully, the Pezun Project MS were built early.
Oh, and the Gelgoog is going to be built at LEAST a month ahead of schedule.

I think you're doing okay.

>>9384680

This really, with the advent of a mass produced white base, the only thing we have that can counter it is our beam cannons. Without them, we hold no effective counter to it or its gundam compliment, making any engagement with it pointless for us. A mass produced beam weapon is of vital importance to us, now more than ever and should be our top and only priority.

If that involves us stealing plans or a massed assault it doesn't matter, we won't win without it.

>>9384869
The Pegasus-class has entered full production, yes, but at this stage in the war they're still restricted to RX- and RGM-79[G] models. The Feds still lack any real space-capable mobile units aside from Balls. If anything, we ought to counter by stepping up Zanzibar production if we can. It's become really obvious that Gaws just don't cut it against an assault carrier.

>>9384850

Oh...and another thing...if we ever make it to space alive, make certain that those MAs end up being integrated into other units. They have additional firepower and we can probably even add rails or something for MS to hold on to them, increasing the deployment range of everyone.

We're probably gonna be better off fighting a delayed harassment battle than going for a single decisive strike.

>>9384869

Not EVERY Pegasus class has Gundams aboard. They only made 8 of the things for the entire war after all.

-------

Two hours pass and the dust finally gives out to blue skies. The Gaw is partially buried, and the engines refuse to start.
It's beginning to look like it's going to be a long walk home when you receive a call over the laser comms that a transport is being sent to retrieve you.

"Fat Uncle transports?" You suggest.

"Perhaps the reinforcements I have been requesting have arrived?" Garma muses.

10 minutes later, your ride home is visible as black dot in against the now setting sun, despite the heat haze the dot resolves into a familiar shape.

"Need a ride home?" asks Ookawara over the Outer Heavens communications band.

ZANZIBAR KAI CLASS ASSAULT CRUISER: OUTER HEAVEN HAS REJOINED THE PARTY.

You all mount up on the outer heaven, transferring the Gaws crew over, and leaving a not in the map to salvage the downed Gaw at a later date. The ship takes off and makes it's way back to the base. You receive word that the rest of your squad was picked up by a Supply Train about half an hour and should rejoin you back at the base.
Of the two Trojan Horses however, there is no sign.

You've lost them... for now.

TO BE CONTINUED.

>>9385041
CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR

>>9385041
>>9385041
>>9385041

We'll get you next time Trojan Horse. Next time.

>>9385096

NEXT TIME!

So will zeonquest resume tomorrow? Or am I going to have the same bad luck as every time I get Saturday off?

>>9385152

Nope. Maybe sunday.
I'm running a multiplayer game of Sword of the Stars with 4chan tommorow. If you have that, or £30 to burn on Steam (or Impulse) feel free to join in.

We will catch that White Base!

>>9385199
God dammit. Every time I get a Saturday off. FFFFFFFF

Oh well. Remember that HANO drop plan if there's a use for it k?
>>9384833

As for new aircraft I had an idea on how to deal with the constant losses of our Dodai pilots.

For starters we need flight packages based off of the Dodai that can be attached directy to our MS. Ideally they would be powerful enough to lift even Dom's. Pic would be a good example of what I'm going for.

Once that's out of the way we can convert the remaining regular Dodais to carry the Gigan's main gun in a turret on top where the MS used to stand. That should act quite effectively in an Air to Air role when all we'll need is an infantryman to act as the gunner.

>>9386290
well that looks pretty awesome but lol why the fuck does a robot need an oxygen mask?

>>9386367
I have no idea. Guess the guy kitbashing it thought it was cool? Found it on /m/ the other day.