can't believe i forgot my trip. whoops. sorry.

++

All in all, you think, the whole island is very well protected. Better, you hope, than the former US base you're going to attack- which apparently fell within the first few hours of the war, rapidly taken by a soviet paradrop. A small, malicious part of you wonders how many soviet paratroopers drowned, since your target island is tiny. The rest of you rapidly decides it really doesn't care.

Ahead, your tanker-a single USNR EKA-3B- loiters, protected by his own powerful jamming gear more than anything else. You've sudden cause to be thankful for the MC-141's range- he won't need in air refueling to make it to his launch point and home safely. You're also jealous that he'll be home sipping coffee while you're headed home after combat, but such is life.

As you refuel, you take a second to look up into the mirrors in time to see Merlin pop a jolly rancher into her mouth and flip a page in whatever magazine she's reading.

[] Hey Merlin! Pass me up a couple of them!
[] You sure it's a good idea to have those up here? You could choke!

>>22087623
[x] You sure it's a good idea to have those up here? You could choke!

>eating hard candy
>in a craft that pulls hard-G maneuvers with regularity

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[x] Hey Merlin!

>>22087623
>[] Hey Merlin! Pass me up a couple of them!

>>22087623
[x] You sure it's a good idea to have those up here? You could choke!

Choking to death because your pilot had to go evasive would be such an ignoble end.

>>22087663

>normal flying
>pulling Gs

wat

>>22087623
[x] You sure it's a good idea to have those up here? You could choke!

>>22087736
See >>22087717.

>>22087755

>evasive maneuvers while safe enough for tanking

[] You sure it's a good idea to have those up here? You could choke!

>>22087774
I think he means if some Super Flankers or Soviet Witches come out of nowhere, or some Soviet sub launches a sub-surface to air missile.

Yes, I know it's patently silly; but we're in an Ace Combat world a out to attack an aerial carrier, and there's a Witch Carrier flying right behind us. I think some paranoia about Yuktobanian super-weapons can be forgiven.

>>22087829
>Worrying about the Yukes

Nigga, it's Belka you need to worry about.

>>22087949
...
...You think this is a plot by the Red Men to get their revenge on the twin powers that defeated them in the last Mars War?

>>22087623
[x] You sure it's a good idea to have those up here? You could choke!

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>>22087949
So if Belka was the country defeated in the last great war, and Russia is Yuktobania...
Is Belka.. Mars?

[] Hey Merlin! Pass me up a couple of them!

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>>22087965
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkoG1qX-pyQ&list=SPC85EBB5CA26F8E69&index=37

>>22087965
>>22087982
Yeah. Incident in 1953. A possible Martian Uprising is defeated by an undercover team of witches, commandos, and martians.

Now they're trying again.

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>war with russia
>1989
>putin still in kgb

whelp we fucked

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[x] You sure it's a good idea to have those up here? You could choke!

“You sure it's a good idea to have those up here, Merlin?” You ask over the intercom, slightly climbing to start your approach to y our tanker. He's up above the cloud deck- just barely, maybe, but enough so that you've got to fly through the mess of slate-grey clouds before you spot him- still on the westbound leg of his flight.

You look down in time to miss her shrug. “I like Jolly ranchers!” she protests back. “And I know not to eat them when we're close to the target anyway!”

“Fair enough. No more after that one, ok? We're close enough we're gonna have to drop down pretty soon if they've got picket ships. Don't need you choking back there if we've gotta evade a SAM or something, ok?” You say, chuckling.

“Ok, ok.” she says, grudgingly. “I'll finish this last one, then no more.”

“Fair enough,” you respond. “Hey, we're coming up on the tanker. Mind getting us set up?”

“Oh!” She exclaims. “Sorry! Yeah, give me a few seconds.”

1/2

A dull thud announces the deployment of your refueling probe, which is one of your many minor complaints. The nose and forward fuselage of the Wyvern is full of crap- a pair of guns, most of your computers, cockpit, landing gear, gun ammo bins, armor- enough stuff that the designers of the bird put the refueling probe back over the right engine intake, with a boom receptacle over the left one.

While it made sense from an engineering standpoint, you guess, it still makes tanking a pain in the ass, though having a RIO helps. Merlin slowly talks you onto the basket, and you're slightly relieved to see the green light on the tanker illuminate, indicating that fuel is flowing into your fighter.

It takes a few minutes to refill your tanks, but eventually you disengage from the probe with a tiny puff of JP-9 fuel. The Skywarrior pilot wags his wings and pulls off, headed home, leaving you free to start your pre-mission approach. The witches won't launch just yet, but they will be soon- less than a hundred miles to go till they're in the air.

Intel wasn't sure if there were Soviet navy picket ships or not, and there's always the possibility of a fighter patrol, and your briefing was explicit about the island having light, but effective, SAM coverage with some limited AA gun presence as well. Still, your approach is up to you.

[] Go in low, underneath the cloud deck. Keeps you off their radar, but a lot easier to spot visually!
[] Go in high. Radar might get you, but you'll have the energy advantage and fighters can't bounce you from above as easily!

>>22088018
That's so cheesy it hurts. Please tell me that's not a thing that actually happened in the setting.

>>22088136
>Cheesy

I was unaware Chester Cheeta was involved. How's it cheesy?

>>22088130
[x] Go in low, underneath the cloud deck. Keeps you off their radar, but a lot easier to spot visually!

If their SAM is effective, then I'd rather not have to deal with their radar locking on to us.

>>22088169
Sounds like a generic action movie plot. Like, isn't that pretty much the plot of The Expendables?

>>22088207
The Expendables had a plot? I wouldn't know, I've never seen it.

>>22088130
[x] Go in low, underneath the cloud deck. Keeps you off their radar, but a lot easier to spot visually!

I don't trust our "Stealth" characteristics. They're going to know we're coming either way (if only because of the witches), so I'd prefer them to only be able to hit us with AAA. Better that than Flying Telephone Poles, ya know?

>>22088130
[x] Go in low, underneath the cloud deck. Keeps you off their radar, but a lot easier to spot visually!
lol bvr

>>22088220
thats_the_joke.jpg

>>22088130
[X] Go in low. We do NOT want to bet painted for that SAM, and the storm should help with the visual issue. Should (hopefully) keep their fighters mostly grounded, too.

>>22088130
>[] Go in low, underneath the cloud deck. Keeps you off their radar, but a lot easier to spot visually!

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>>22088130
[x] Go in low, underneath the cloud deck. Keeps you off their radar, but a lot easier to spot visually!

Watch out for Tunguskas and ZSUs

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[x] Go in low, underneath the cloud deck. Keeps you off their radar, but a lot easier to spot visually!

You set your fighter in a shallow dive, descending back through the swirling mass of clouds and into the snowstorm engulfing the region. You'd rather deal with some sparse AA fire than risk SAMs, you think- and with any luck, the weather's canned any flight ops at Shemya, preventing them from keeping a patrol up.

Tension slowly builds as you fly closer- miles melting away underneath your jet, the sea unchanging and the storm growing worse, if anything. Still, you experience nothing worse than slight buffeting from the gale-force winds, though the MC-141's been driven above the cloud deck by the storm.

“Revenant, we're beginning our launch.” Ice calls, finally breaking radio silence. “How's it look out there?”

[] Weather's lousy, but you like it cold, right?
[] Wind's pretty brutal below the cloud deck, visibility's hot all to hell.
[] It's a tropical Paradise. Freakiest thing ever!

>>22088659
[x] Wind's pretty brutal below the cloud deck, visibility's hot all to hell.

We're beginning our attack. Time to get professional.

>>22088659
>[] Wind's pretty brutal below the cloud deck, visibility's hot all to hell.

>>22088659
[x] Wind's pretty brutal below the cloud deck, visibility's shot to hell.

>>22088659
[x] Wind's pretty brutal below the cloud deck, visibility's shot all to hell.
Work time.

>>22088659
>[] Wind's pretty brutal below the cloud deck, visibility's hot all to hell.

Shit sucks, boss.

>>22088659
[x] Wind's pretty brutal below the cloud deck, visibility's shot all to hell.

No fooling around now; time to get our game face on.

>>22088659
>[x] Wind's pretty brutal below the cloud deck, visibility's hot all to hell.

[] Wind's pretty brutal below the cloud deck, visibility's hot all to hell

"Perfect flying weather! The air wants you to kiss the ground and you can't see shit, captain!"

>>22088659
[] Weather's lousy, but you like it cold, right?

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[x] Wind's pretty brutal below the cloud deck, visibility's hot all to hell.

“Wind is pretty brutal, boss.” you say, looking at the storm outside your cockpit and suddenly thanking the designers of the heating systems in your fighter for their excellent work. “Visibility is shot all to hell and it's probably colder than a wit- very cold.”

“Great” Ice sighs audibly. “Well, it won't matter till we get there. Katya, stay above the clouds with us until we're almost on the target, ok?”

Ice rapidly lays out an attack plan- you can't go supersonic without making your CBUs worthless, and there's an excellent chance you can catch the soviet fighters on the ground with them if you hit them in your first pass. The witches will go in first, find you a good target for the bombs, and let you drop 'em while they worry about other targets.

Alternately, they can all focus on attacking other targets, leaving you free to pick and chose the best places to put your ground attack ordinance- less risk to them, but more to yourself, since you'll be exposed over the island longer.

[] Go with Ice's plan.
[] Go with the second plan.
[] Wait, I got a better idea! (write-in)

>>22089022
[x] Go with the second plan.
They're OUR bombs and WE will decide what they blow up, thank you very much.

>>22089022
[x] Go with Ice's plan.
We're the bigger target, and while we're agile, we're not quite as agile than a witch at sub-sonic.

Also, more sets of eyes looking for a good target for the CBU's than just ours means faster identification of targets.

>>22089022
[x] Go with Ice's plan.
Best to make these pieces of shit count.

[] Go with Ice's plan.

No need risking to crash a brand new bird straight into a soviet base. And we couldn't evac Merlin if things become ugly.

>>22089022
[] Go with Ice's plan.

>>22089022
>[x] Go with Ice's plan.

As much as I dislike putting the girls in any more danger than we have to,
>[X] Go with Ice's plan.
is the best option.

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[x] Go with Ice's plan.

“Sounds good to me.” you say, agreeing with Ice's hastily- sketched out plan. “I'll follow about... twenty seconds behind your first pass, that should give you the time to give me a target or two without leaving your ass out hanging too long.”

“What is it with you and asses?” Slider asks, causing a short ripple of laughter across the squadron- even you get in a few chuckles.

“Ok. We're going to prioritise fighters on the ground, then their fuel dump. If you've got any bombs left after that, we'll try to put them on their ammo dump or something. Clear?”

“Clear.” you respond, toggling your weapons selector over to 'bmb' and double-checking their arming status. They're still set to safe.

You're inside fifty miles when you see the witches break through the cloud deck in their descent and rocket ahead, rapidly breaking the sound barrier and hitting mach one. As they roar away from you, Merlin arms your bombs, preempting your order to do so by a split second.

The next choice is your radar. If you're emitting, they'll detect it, but they'll be under attack by the witches in a second anyway. Still, it could give them the additional warning they need to shoot at you in your own pass.

[] Merlin, fire up the set!
[] Leave it cold till after this pass, Merlin.

>>22089022
[x] Go with Ice's plan.

>>22089582

[x] Leave it cold till after this pass, Merlin.

>>22089582
[x] Leave it cold till after this pass, Merlin.

Every edge we can get is an edge we deny the Soviets.

[x] Leave it cold till after this pass, Merlin.

[] Leave it cold till after this pass, Merlin.

[] Leave it cold till after this pass, Merlin.

>>22089582
[x] Leave it cold till after this pass, Merlin.
The Witches are identifying targets for us anyway.

>>22089582
>[x] Leave it cold till after this pass, Merlin.

Everything is so cold.

>>22089582
[x] Leave it cold till after this pass, Merlin.

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[x] Leave it cold till after this pass, Merlin.

“Ok Merlin, leave the set cold till after this pass. Fire up the defensive suite though.” you order, checking your straps for third time. You grin at yourself halfway through. Developing a nervous tic, Bishop? You mentally ask.

If you have a response for yourself, you can't think of it.

“Alright, you've got fighters parked in revetments all along the runway!” Ice yells over the radio, over the report of her rifle and the occasional roar of Slider's shotgun. “Nothing's up yet, and Maverick and Goose are taking care of their Air defenses!”

You roar over seconds later, noting the chaos on the ground as the soviet troops madly scramble for aircraft, AA mounts, and SAM batteries, caught woefully unprepared for the sudden attack.

Of the twenty fighters parked in revetments, only four escape your bombs- launched at mid altitude and fast, the combined effects munitions cause horrific damage along their path, wrecking fighters, fuel trucks, and setting off a large secondary that you think might have been an ammo truck brewing up.

Interestingly, though, there's no sign of the 'super flankers'- though the fighters on the ground are Mig-29s, which are frontline assets, they're hardly an advanced flanker. Similarly, there's no sign of the Soviet witches yet, and the flying carrier is nowhere to be seen.

[] Take care of what you can see now, have Merlin keep herself glued to the radar
[] This is a damn setup! Out! Out!
[] Ice knows as much as we do, and she's our commander anyway. She's got a plan!

>>22089990
[x] Take care of what you can see now, have Merlin keep herself glued to the radar
[x] See if Ice noticed this too.

>>22089990
>[] This is a damn setup! Out! Out!
something doesn't seem right

>>22089990
>[] Take care of what you can see now, have Merlin keep herself glued to the radar
>[] Boss, I smell a trap.

>>22089990

[x] Take care of what you can see now, have Merlin keep herself glued to the radar

[x] Hey Ice, does this seem too easy or is it just me?

>>22089990
>[] This is a damn setup! Out! Out!

look above
see flying carrier
wat do


captca
>lancaster sociptab
yeah captca you would be a sociopath for flying a lancaster here

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>>22089990
>[x] Take care of what you can see now, have Merlin keep herself glued to the radar
>[x] See if Ice noticed this too.

Just Migs?

>>22090115

They might just be out of Su-35s, those things don't exactly grow on trees and we've been unnaturally good at wrecking the poor things.

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>>22090115
>Frontal Aviation standard Air Superiority fighter
>"Just" MiGs

This is like going to an Air Force base and saying "All you have are just F-16s?"

>>22090145
That would be accurate, though. F-16s are crap compared to, ironically enough, 15s.

>>22090145
We were total super flankers.

>>22089990

[] Take care of what you can see now, have Merlin keep herself glued to the radar
[] This is a damn setup! Out! Out!

>>22090163

then what is the purpose of a 16 then
>not that much in to planes

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>>22089990

>finally make the thread!

[x] Take care of what you can see now, have Merlin keep herself glued to the radar.

[x] Hey Ice, does this seem too easy or is it just me?

[] Take care of what you can see now, have Merlin keep herself glued to the radar
[] Ice knows as much as we do, and she's our commander anyway. She's got a plan!

Also calling it now: Katya was brainwashed, the soviet will trigger her assassin personality and she will kill us all.

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>>22090163

Except MiG-29s are a dual-engined air superiority fighter just like the F-15, and should probably be considered on par with it. The Su-35 doesn't really have a western equivalent afaik.

>>22090263
Shut up you kraut!

Had the same feeling a few threads ago...

>>22090218
A Fuckload cheaper per-unit.

High-Low strategy.

>>22090163
The point was that the MiG-29 was an advanced fighter, used in the best Soviet front-line units. Fulcrums aren't Fishbeds.

>>22090218

Cheaper. The F-16 beat out the YF-17 Cobra because it was less expensive. The Cobra was looked at by the Navy (who liked what they saw) and with some changes, the Cobra became the F-18 Hornet.

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>>22090263

>then no more katya
>we can go full route on ice

>>22090218
It was supposed to improve on the 15, but the design team did not have the same "zero pounds for air-to-ground" philosophy the 15 team did. The end result was a plane that, while a capable air-to-air fighter, was inferior to the 15 in that respect and was utterly useless as a bomber.

>>22090373
You forget the Sliderfags, you silly man

>>22090218
The 15 is better, but a fuckton more expensive. Also bigger.

16 is cheap(er), small and light.

Use the 15s for high-priority, high-value targets, and the 16s to make up numbers everywhere else.

>>22090373
There won't be an Ice route. Because we will be all dead.

>>22090475
So we will be Iced.

>>22090263
Not if we get our "trigger" in her first.

(and by trigger I mean dick)

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The only route is Merlin Route, am I right guys?

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>>22090525
Kotters, you son of a bitch, no. Merlin is not for lewds.

>>22090525

go back to tofusaur.us kotters

>>22090570
>F-22 Witch

So her hair bleaching washes out in the rain?

>>22090525
incest fapfic when?

>>22090525
Chaste, not Lewd

>>22090617

you want the next shooting at your home?

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[x] Take care of what you can see now, have Merlin keep herself glued to the radar
[x] Ice knows as much as we do, and she's our commander anyway. She's got a plan!

“Merlin! Get on the set. This reeks of a setup.” You command, pivoting your fighter around and arming your guns. Right about now, you wish you'd taken the damn runway cratering bombs, but it is what it is.

“Ice, ma'am, you seeing this? No flankers, and no witches.” You say, strafing a pair of the migs as they begin their takeoff roll, causing one to explode outright and the other to shudder to a halt as your 25mm shells chew holes in it's right side, causing the wing to separate from the body and fall to the ground. You try not to notice when the pilot, scrambling away from the wreck, is tossed like a ragdoll when the fighter detonates, it's on board fuel and weapons cooked off by the nearby fire of his former wingmate.

“Yeah, I think intel screwed up bigtime” she says, sending a pair of shots at a ZSU-23-4 and causing it to slew to a halt, smoke pouring from it's engine deck. “WE screwed them up pretty good here anyway. Maverick! Goose! Bug out, make for Dutch harbor!”

“Aye ma'am! We're out of here!” Maverick responds, and you see the twin streaks of their retreating forms pushing into the cloud layer and turn to a south-eastern heading.

“Ok, Bishop, it's you and Katya next. Ice says over the radio. “We'll be right behind you!”

[] Bullshit ma'am, you don't have rear facing radar. You and Slider go, we'll cover you on the way out!
[] Understood. Katya! We're outta here!

>>22090705

dusulfug plz
plz sthap

>>22090712
>[] Understood. Katya! We're outta here!
Trying to be a hero will end in tears

>>22090712

[] Bullshit ma'am, you don't have rear facing radar. You and Slider go, we'll cover you on the way out!

"We're not leaving either of you to die here!"

>>22090712
[x] Bullshit ma'am, you don't have rear facing radar. You and Slider go, we'll cover you on the way out!

Ice just needs to deal with the facts.

>>22090712
[x] Understood. Katya! We're outta here!

Let's not play the hero when we have absolutely no reason to do so.

[] Bullshit ma'am, you don't have rear facing radar. You and Slider go, we'll cover you on the way out!

>CAPTCHA: arab gsboomi
things did go boom, but not in Arabia. At least not through our work.

>>22090712
>[X] Understood. Katya! We're outta here!
If a witch damages her striker she can hitch a ride, we can't. Less risk this way.

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>>22090715

[x] Understood. Katya! We're outta here!

I think we're bigger targets than Ice is in both literal and figurative terms.

[] Bullshit ma'am, you don't have rear facing radar. You and Slider go, we'll cover you on the way out!

[x] Bullshit ma'am, you don't have rear facing radar. You and Slider go, we'll cover you on the way out!

>>22090740
>We're not leaving either of you to die here!"
You need to dial the melodrama back a bit.

>>22090712
>[] Bullshit ma'am, you don't have rear facing radar. You and Slider go, we'll cover you on the way out!

>>22090649
>>22090617
>>22090582
>>22090570
What? No love for the RIO?

Well, she has a sister, right? How about her?

>>22090712
>[] Bullshit ma'am, you don't have rear facing radar. You and Slider go, we'll cover you on the way out!

Not trying to hero. Hell, she and Slider can retreat at the same time as us, but we need to be with the last out because WE have the sensors to watch out.

>>22090712

[X] Understood. Katya! We're outta here!

But you and Slider watch your sixes, ma'am..

>>22090813
I was referring to chaste romance. You give Merlin fans a bad name.

>>22090712
>[] Bullshit ma'am, you don't have rear facing radar. You and Slider go, we'll cover you on the way out!

Eh, not looking to play hero. Just, hey, if we got the set why use it?

>>22090712
[x] Understood. Katya! We're outta here!

>>22090712
>[x] Bullshit ma'am, you don't have rear facing radar. You and Slider go, we'll cover you on the way out!

>>22090525

Kudders plz
Everyone knows Fronk x Plane is the only route. Also da best route

(Or Fronk x Ice. Or Fronk x Slider. At least that would be lewd romance.)

>>22090712
[X] Understood Ma'am. Katya! We're outta here!

She's our commanding officer and we've got no good reason not to listen. Just do as she says.

>>22090925
>Fronk x Slider
>lewd
You just know it'd turn out that she's all demure and shit when it comes to having relations with Fronk. Katya - and probably Ice - would likely shatter his pelvis though.

>>22090970
>no good reason not to listen
The lack of coverage her not having ass-mounted radar coverage is pretty good.

>>22090712
>[x] Understood. Katya! We're outta here!

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>>22090974

>>22090712
[x] Bullshit ma'am, you don't have rear facing radar. You and Slider go, we'll cover you on the way out!

"Won't be like last time boss."

>>22091042
Legs and torso does not equal pelvis.

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[x] Bullshit ma'am, you don't have rear facing radar. You and Slider go, we'll cover you on the way out!

“All due respect, ma'am, I've got a better electronic defensive suite and a rear-facing radar. You two get out, we'll be right behind you.” You say, scanning the wreck of the base on the ground.

“Goddammit Bishop if you-” you cut her off.

“Ice! Just go. This won't be a replay of last time.” You say, searching for bandits. You don't see any, but that doesn't mean they're not out there.

“I... yeah. Ok, Slider! Let's go.” she says, peeling off.

You follow seconds later, wary of following too closely.

For the first ten minutes, your route out is extremely tense. You can practically Feel the flankers and their witches looking for you. You get low enough that you're pretty sure some waves licked the bottom of your bird, and you're trucking along fast enough that the whitecaps below are blurring as they flash by.

But ten minutes turns into twenty, then into thirty, and no aircraft show up. You reform on the squadron, and nothing attacks you. You tank up, and decide to press home to Elmendorf AFB, with all the witches reporting that they feel fine enough to make the trip.

It's almost a shock when you hear the mayday call coming from the base.

“This is elmendorf tower!” the panicked statement is shot through with the whoops and squeals of jamming interference. “One of those Russian supersubs has surfaced in the cook inlet on the west side of fire island! We're under attack! Any elements that can hear this, mayday! Mayday!”

[] Pour it on. You can supercruise easily and your harpoons will do something, at least.
[] “Ice? What's the plan?”

and on that update, gents, I've got to head out. I should be back sometime around 23 or 2330 EST, at which point I will continue for a few updates, at least, assuming the thread hasn't imploded by then! If it has, I'll take the majority vote as the OP of next time!

cheers guys!

>>22091208

[x] ask ice "can i?"

>>22091208
MAN THE FUCKING HARPOONS
if it is on the surface, it will be highly vulnerable to air to surface missiles, so yeah, its time to show him why a submarine that can fly is a fucking terrible idea.

[] “Ice? What's the plan?”

Time to be a good subordinate

>>22091208
>[] “Ice? What's the plan?”
lets not usurp her authority too much

>>22091208
[x] "Ice. Harpoons, Ice. Harpoons!"

>>22091208
[X] “Ice? What's the plan?”

Let her plan something, and then we turn on the speed and murderize it.

>>22091268
>>22091238
Either of these. Get my vote.

[x] “Ice? What's the plan?”

Well that was a set up of a different kind.

>>22091241
>MAN THE FUCKING HARPOONS
ey ey ey, it is still your mother eh?

>>22091208

>Shit, the Russkies are hitting home while we were out for the evening

[X] “Ice? What's the plan?”

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Something for the photo album thats suppose to go to Katya.

>>22091208
>[] Pour it on. You can supercruise easily and your harpoons will do something, at least.

I do not regret thoose harpoons now. But that begs the question, Intel happens to drop the ball and super subs show up?

>>22091208
Have Ice and Slider paint the sub for our Harpoons.

>>22091286
>>22091334
No need for a setup. We just happened to be launching our strike at the same time the Russkies launched theirs, and we passed each other in the storm.

This is war. Shit like that happens.

>>22091334
see, that bothers me because there should be at least Seawolf or a 688 there to play torpedo launcher/Tomahawk launchin general but thats just my experience doing things. (if your boat's old man hasn't tried to start WW3, you haven't lived!)

So, who actually _is_ the prime contender for Fronk?

>>22091386
Not Merlin.

>>22091208

[x] “Ice? What's the plan?”

>>22091417
Not helpful.

>>22091208
[x] “Ice? What's the plan?”
Ask her how she wants to handle this.

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>>22091369
This is a better point.

>>22091433
Katya, Slider, and Ice

>>22091386

your mom,

which considering your age actually might be valid

>>22091456
>Acting like a five year old

Do you regularly shit up threads?

>>22091470

i'm from tr/o/lls, what else did ya expect

also you are making it to easy

>>22091456
>>22091470
TRAPFAGS
GONNA
FAG
gb2/tofusaur plz

>>22091491
Oh dear Christ. If you're going to accuse someone of being immature, you'd probably be better off not spouting lulz troll xd and watch your spelling.

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>>22091437
ha, this is what we are looking for (at least in theory)

>>22091369
The Canadians were supposed to provide a sub.

That was a mistake.

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>>22091501

>>22091530
>Trusting the Canadian Navy to get anything done.

No wonder they managed to get that hugeass sub so close.

>>22091521
I know it was the only sub picture I have.

>>22091521
"Ah yes, the Common Submarine. Long, hard and full of seamen, it spends its days lurking underwater and waiting to shoot its load into the unprotected bottoms of unsuspecting ships and bathers."

>>22091530
at this time, Canada would have diesel subarines, which in theory would be ideal for this mission, waiting around a coastal harbor, and once they got the sonar ping, firing torpedoes to sink the super-massive vessel [ugh its DC and reactor mus.. how does it even work], but the Oberons are fairly old at this time.

man should i start telling sea stories?

>>22091604
Do it. We've got about three hours or so to kill anyway. Just try to keep the post count down. Maybe pastebin them?

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>>22091604

did someone say d-sub?

>>22091604
>[ugh its DC and reactor mus.. how does it even work]

I'm guessing it was made from salvaged Martian sub tech.

>>22091604
Your problem is that you're assuming the Canucks would have a WORKING submarine.

If their recent track record is anything to go by, that's probably not the case.

>>22091724

>Canucks
>working military
>Navy that isn't a couple of beavers in a canoe

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>>22091742

shut the fuck up ridire

>>22091742
Arthur Currie and Romeo Dallaire are going to take turns punching you in the balls now, you realize.

>>22091742

+1

made me grin

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>>22091742

CANADA WILL GROW LARGER!

>>22091760
>>22091793
>>22091798
>>22091818
I'M FUCKING KIDDING.
Canuck operators are pretty badass. I have a friend from Alabama that is Canadian, he's in the Royal Canadian Army.

>>22091832
Out in the open sea, where the 688s play, there is a region of water which happens to be quite contested. This is where I went out, a long time ago, and I learned that.. real active sonar sounds nothing like it does in any movie or game, and that we are playing hide and seek with bazookas. I had just qualified, and I was taking a quick nap, when I heard... the sound. It was alien, ghostly really, when I asked "what the fuck, what the fuck," and my sea dad at the time explained, "Oh, its just the CO, he's seeing how far we can get before we reach [the enemy], and get out.

I thought this was going to be a shakedown tour, but I go on watch, and soon find out we need absurd amounts of power, and are going at speeds that were not in any training, before the noises stop. That.. was just the basic day I realized I had signed up for the crazy train, and I didn't even see what happened in forward!


Sinking a carrier.

Carriers are real easy to sink. I suspect someone in the force has made it a law to sink a carrier in drills.

Now, in theory it is nightmare mode, tons of cruisers, destroyers, escorts, helicopters, but with the right skill, and tactical planning, you can go through this defensive net, fire your torpedoes, and escape with a kill. Today's target was a fun one, but we were going alone, to see what new anti submarine tactics we could learn. So, this time the captain wants us to really add insult to injury. Instead of the usual calculate targeting solutions and sink.. we go close, every foot closer to a destroyer or cruiser looking for us, a helicopter hunting for our sounds, the entire fleet looking for one boat. As we close in.. we start running surfacing procedures, and then I realize. we are going to fuckign surface next to the damn carrier. point blank range. this is insane, but the boat does so, and we put up the flag, before one watchstander realizes what we have done. I think we won, I think we did.

>>22091942
You won. You fucking won the goddamn ocean. I am now actively considering a job in the US Navy on a submarine. Congratulations.

>>22091942
>we are going to fuckign surface next to the damn carrier. point blank range. this is insane, but the boat does so, and we put up the flag, before one watchstander realizes what we have done. I think we won, I think we did.
Yeah. You won. I imagine the CO of that carrier damn near had a coronary.

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>>22091942
What type of boat were you on?

>>22092182
this was a los angles, any more and people can find me, I know the Australians have done similar shit.

>>22092281
Even if we identify which sub you were on, you haven't said anything that would let us pick you out from any of the other ratings in the aft 2/3rds of that sub.

>>22092318
You actually think that, don't ya?

>>22092318

He's black. Has/had an afro. He's a snipe.

Who am I kidding, I haven't a clue.

>>22091942
Damn, son. Just damn. Feels good to know that we have submarine crews like yours out there.

>>22091942
Any more stories up your sleeve?

>>22092281
>I know the Australians have done similar shit.

We make point of sticking the finger to your glorious Nuclear Navy in our undermanned conventional subs in every wargame ever.

For obvious reasons, there's a lot of competition to be one of the crews that goes to RIMPAC and such.

>>22092687
high voltage, or South America, which sounds better.
>>22092857
carriers don't count as people they are big and slow,

>>22092915

Both

>>22092988
>
south america is nightmare mode, since we do not.. stop moving, yay no good shore power. Now, this means bad shore watch rotations, and I was a step above nub and shit tier status. So that means I had to get used to keeping the ship company. Now, because one gets bored doing this, you start to joke about the outside world.

Someone one day apparently brings over a truck with a generator, a good thing for us since we can get off the ship, normal, but being in south america.. shit is off. The Wiring is in Spanish, the truck looks sketchy, but it works.. untill it decides to fail. Now, it wouldn't be so bad, but the crowds nearby stare, the dockworkers moving closer, and the nub on watch looks nervous, untill they all.. pile on the generator, and start to work on it. I was still watching this from the cables in awe, because apparently, generator repair is a skill that is taught.

>>22093134

Fuck... for a moment I thought I was reading an excerpt from a zombie novel.

so we ded?

>>22093691

Ghost is suppose go ba back within 30mins or so.

while we wait anyone here play planetside 2 and seen this shit?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AmZvwAbUn4

>>22094336
...so tr's leader is a fat shoutcaster

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.

>>22094494
A spetsnaz witch must of jumped him the poor bastard

>>22094600
yep op is ded

were in the hell is the OP

>>22094962
Soviet zombie witches ate him?

>>22094962
Airport delays most likely.

>>22094600
that combo sounds overkill

So is someone going to archive the small bit that got done this time?

>>22095228
Don't believe in the archive, believe in the me who believes in GhostDivision!!

ok, guys. I'm home. lemme get some food, then we can run if you all want to. if not, I'll archive this bit and we'll be back next week

>>22095329
I've waited this long so I'd rather continue.

>>22095329

RUN MOTHERFUCKER RUN

WE MUST BONE OUR CO BEFORE THE THREAD IS DONE

>>22095329
>if you all want to
>if
laughingpilots.jpg

>>22095329
>Do you want to do awesome things? y/n
>Actually expecting anyone to say no

Someone put on the awesome music.

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>>22095329
RUN THIS SHIT INTO THE GROUND

>>22095329
I got a bottle of caffeine pills HIT IT

>>22095329

IVE WAITED THIS LONG. I WILL NOT BE DEINSD.

>>22095329
Run for extra tiem.

>>22095329

I'm not waiting another week, man. HIT YOUR BURNERS PILOT.

Moar.

you better not be asleep!

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[x] “Ice? What's the plan?”

“Ice...?” You ask, earning you a frustrated look from your CO.

“Those things are huge, bishop. Do you even have anything that would dent one?” She asks, shrugging. “We're strung out. Maybe if it were aircraft, we'd be fine but that thing?”

“I've got a pair of harpoons.” You say, desperately. “They'd do something, right?”

“I don't know...” she says, doubt clear in her voice. “That thing is awful huge, and knowing the Russians it's got point-defense everywhere.”

“If it's a nuke sub...” you start, then stop, realising just how stupid that is- seconds before Slider points it out.

“Oh, yeah. Let's try to shoot a nuke sub's reactors this close to the most populated city in Alaska, not to mention our base! Place would be lethally hot for centuries genius!” She says.

“ok, ok. Bad idea. What about it's tower?” You ask, not willing to give this up.

“well, we don't know what's in it...” Ice starts

[] Cut her off. “I'm not doing nothing!”
[] Let her finish. Maybe there's a plan cooking?

>>22095881
>[x] Let her finish. Maybe there's a plan cooking?

spit it out!

>>22095881
[X] Let her finish. Maybe there's a plan cooking?

Let her finish, but if she doesn't have anything we're going to do something no matter what.

[x] Let her finish. Maybe there's a plan cooking?

Let her speak then think of something ourselves.

>>22095881
[x] Let her finish. Maybe there's a plan cooking?

>>22095881
>[] Let her finish. Maybe there's a plan cooking?

>>22095881

>[] let her finish BUT if she refuses to hit it, we'll send our harpoons into its side anyways.

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ok if a sub is here.....were is that flying carrier


also I found this pic ok /k/

>>22095927
on*

>>22095927
why are all the turbines in a row?

>>22095881
[] Let her finish. Maybe there's a plan cooking?

Ice wut is plan

>>22095950
Because artists are rarely engineers.

>>22095881

Might be meta, depending on whether the capability is known but this thing launches planes.

We can dump the harpoons into its hanger. Maybe cause secondaries.

>>22095986
might be nukes on board I would not risk it

>>22096054
Doubt it besides the reactor, I remember the vast majority of nukes are under various lock and keys and the people at command are very hesitant to use them.

>>22095881
a hit on its nuclear reactors will NOT cause a nuclear explosion assuming the Russian's reacotrs are activley safe (they aren't if they are what I think they are, which means they.. well you could if you got intel fire a precise hit to disable the reactor, forcing the ship to land because it would overheat otherwise!) Otherwise, you risk fission product release, which isn't THAT bad if you contain the blast radius/prevent the core from breaking.

>>22095881
Listen to the boss lady, be ready to dump those Harpoons. Also: argue our case if we have to, but we shouldn't shoot without permission from the Ice Lady.

>>22095881
It's a fucking sub.

If you punch big holes in it with missiles, it either stays on the surface the whole way back home (turning it into a big fat target) or it can submerge one more time and then not come back up.

Subs are not resilient warships.

>>22096065
nuclear missiles are.. well they won't explode if they are damaged, you again risk the release of fission products though, but its not a likely thing to happen.

>>22096074
Also, forgot to mention: as a fucking sub, point-defense is problematic. Either it all has to be internal, in which case it's severely limited in size and ammo capacity compared to normal PD, or it's external, in which case your sub now has a sonar signature slightly less stealthy than a pod of dolphins raping a pregnant whale.

>>22096070
Agreed.

I'm in favour of shooting, if only because the kind of radioactive spillage they're afraid of is unlikely, but that's meta-ish.


But yeah.

>>22096115
>a pod of dolphins raping a pregnant whale.

Knowing the shit people pick up on Sonar, there's probably a recording of that somewhere.

>>22095881
also, this is more of a character question, because this will determine if Ice would ICLy know this or not, is Ice eligible to command a carrier/possibly slated for a Carrier Command slot? [is she s PXO or not], if so, she would know enough about how reactors work to know how to deal with it.

>>22096066

I'm not sure a harpoon could even penetrate far enough to damage the reactor proper. This thing has to have a multiple-hull configuration ala the Typhoons, I would think.

Hit it in the torpedoes. IIRC, those are prone to becoming secondary explosions when hit by missiles.

>>22096155
Water intakes.

It probably uses sea water for coolant.

Scrag those, they have to shut down the reactor or it melts.

>>22096204
Sounds like a good idea, plus if it gets away it'll be a lot more defenceless.

so many ways to kill this monster....so little time

>>22096212
oh god you are insane, BUT if it has air cooling systems, it can just use air cooling instead of water cooling. Man, we could make a AWACS quest, of wacky in universe analysis thinking up tactics the way we all are posting!

>>22096217
its a submarine on the surface/in ports. If you are going to kill submarines, you kill them on the surface, a submarine's weak spot is on the surface, where high speed aircraft can kill it, satellites can track it.. all those fun things.

>>22096212

They wouldn't have a specific 'water intake for the reactor is here, destroy it to render the submarine useless' point, for obvious reasons.

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>>22096270
a weakness of power plants, kill the intakes, and they overheat and die. so, what are you talking about, anon-kun

>>22096270
We Ace Combat now, so yeah, it probably does.

But IRL, they would have those points, they'd just make them as hard to notice and then damage as possible.

>>22096385

Yeah, but it wouldn't be just one intake; and in any event, the intakes would be below the waterline even when the submarine is surfaced because otherwise they don't work.

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still were is that flying carrier this is the wild card

>>22096531
we need to scream YO JOE! before a fight one day

>>22096270
You'd be surprised.

>>22096531
There is an 'H' in that word, Comrade.

>>22095881
Perhaps we should aim at weapons ports, Hangars, and other vulnerable bits that won't make it go nuclear?

>>22096531
>>22096542
>gi joe

fuck ya!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX_9jKFpQKM

>>22096531
Anybody else remember hunting for a carrier we were sure was there back in ZeonQuest?

Remember how that turned out?

...yeah, let's stick with killing the shit we know is here.

>>22096578
I was just thinking of that, yeah.

>>22096574
they used tomcats!?

>>22096578
Except Fronk doesn't have any sort of real command authority so that's not an issue.

>waitingforopskelleton.jpg

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[x] Let her finish. Maybe there's a plan cooking?

“But there's no such thing as unkillable. Even something that big can die. We just gotta figure out how!” She finishes.

You're somewhat underwhelmed. “Providing it doesn't blow us all out of the sky.” you mutter. “Alright, but if it looks like we're gonna bingo... “

“Fair enough.” Ice responds. “We... gods, what IS that?” You follow her pointing arm to the underside of a cloud, lit by flickering, flashing light.

It takes a second for you to piece it together- and you realize you're about to get a show.

“MLRS!” you crow. “The army had those fucking launcher batteries brought up here! Holy hell, that's a lot of rockets.”

You can't help but cheer as you watch the sub shudder, the waters of the cook inlet ripped into a froth by the impact of hundreds of 227mm rockets. Still, it launches more of it's own missiles, and a pair of jets appear just behind it, apparently launched from a covered flight deck in the aft sections of the ship.

“There! It's got fighters. Bishop, can you hit the flight deck?”

“That'd be a hell of a shot, ma'am.” you drawl, peering down through the smoke at the huge sub. The launch doors are still open, but you can be sure they're defended by point-defense systems.

“We can make it, Frank.” Merlin says from behind you.

“That squares it, then.” you mutter. “Ok, keep it's shit off me, I'll wheel it around and jam these harpoons right in it's ass.”

1/2

“What is it with you and asses?” Slider asks again.

“Ha-ha. You're just mad I won't-” You quip.

“That's quite enough of that.” Ice cuts in before you can finish.

You cut south, hoping the damn thing won't turn before you can line up. Normally, this stage isn't necessary- a pair of harpoons would be enough to kill a ship by it's self- or set it up for an easy kill, anyway.

Then again, normally you aren't shooting at something this damn BIG. The MLRS fire hurt it- you could see clear damage on it- but it's a heavily armored beast, and apparently takes more killing than that.

You cut back to the north in a hard turn, kicking both your harpoons loose within a second of each other. Both glow the faint blue that's become indicative of Merlin’s magic. Seconds before impact, you watch a spiderweb of tracers erupt from the ship near the hangar doors- and two small, almost disappointing puffs of smoke erupt from the hangar.

“Damn, that barely looks like we dented it.” You mutter. “Well, good shot any-” You're cut off by a colossal explosion- a slowly curling mushroom cloud erupting over the wreckage of the sub.

“Oh jesus oh damn.....” you gasp, fighting the shockwave and trying to stay stable. “Was that a.....”

“No.” Ice says, voice hard and certain. “It was just a big damn conventional explosion. Maybe hit the jet fuel bunkers, or their magazines. Hard to tell.”

“good work, Bishop.” she says, looking back at you again.

[] Wasn't me, ma'am. That one's Merlin's.
[] Can't take all the credit. Merlin and I are a team, remember?
[] So, can I paint a sub on the side of my fighter now?

>Can't take all the credit. Merlin and I are a team, remember?

[x] Can't take all the credit. Merlin and I are a team, remember?

No other answer.

>>22096747
>[] Wasn't me, ma'am. That one's Merlin's.

More love for our RIO.

>>22096747
>[x] Can't take all the credit. Merlin and I are a team, remember?
>[x] So, can I paint a sub on the side of my fighter now?

>>22096747

[x] Can't take all the credit. Merlin and I are a team, remember?

>>22096747
[x] Wasn't me, ma'am. That one's Merlin's.
[x] So, can I paint a sub on the side of my fighter now?

Keep an eye out, though. Too easy.

>>22096747
>[] Can't take all the credit. Merlin and I are a team, remember?
>[] So, can I paint a sub on the side of my fighter now?

>>22096747
>[] Can't take all the credit. Merlin and I are a team, remember?

>>22096747
[X] Wasn't me, ma'am. That one's Merlin's.

"All I did was set up the shot and press a button, the rest was all done by the best RIO ever."

[X] So, can I paint a sub on the side of my fighter now?

Rolled 13

>>22096747
[x] Can't take all the credit. Merlin and I are a team, remember?
[x] So, can We paint a sub on the side of our fighter now?

I see the "team" remark as reaffirming the general teamwork between them, not any sort of glory hunting

>>22096747
[x] Can't take all the credit. Merlin and I are a team, remember?
[x] So, can we paint a sub on the side of our fighter now?

There. Fixed.

this smells like a trap

>>22096933
>>22096786

Yeah, even with sparkle-enhanced harpoons, there's no way we should have been able to one-shot that damned thing. I smell a rat.

>>22096933
Let's wait and see before we put on our tin hats.

>>22096956
then bam! a ruskie witch with a sniper rifle

>>22096956
Yeah. It is absolutely not dead yet. We need to continue bugging out and rearm, or start looking to fend off its air cover, one.

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[x] Can't take all the credit. Merlin and I are a team, remember?
[x] So, can I paint a sub on the side of my fighter now?

“I can't hardly take the all the credit, ma'am” You say, surveying the wreckage from above. You don't see a whole lot of survivors. “I just set up the shot and pushed the button. Merlin did the rest.”

“Well, good work, the both of you.” Ice says.

“Hey, can I paint a sub on the side of my jet now?” You ask, grinning beneath your mask.

“Right now, Bishop, you can do whatever you want.” Ice says, sounding suddenly tired.

“Whatever I want, huh?” You drawl.

“Save it for later, Bishop. Let's just get on the ground.”

One runway is completely out of commission- strewn with craters and debris from the missile attacks. Strangely, for such a large submarine, it was only able to target the airbase, though there's heavy damage to both Elemndorf, Kulis air national guard base, down at the airport, and Merril field, which isn't useful for anything but choppers, really.

Up in the northern part of the state, the first major attacks were successful, demolishing the soviet line and forcing them into a hasty withdrawal, with their new defense centered on Tanana. In the north, at least, everything was as expected, with the soviets suffering severe casualties, and withdrawing in disarray.

The worst news comes later. In light of your successes, and of a squadron being freed up from the fleet, yours is being moved.

Your new duty station? Driftwood bay. About 30 miles west of Dutch harbor. In the Aleutian islands.

You're less than thrilled.

>Driftwood bay. About 30 miles west of Dutch harbor. In the Aleutian islands.

I get the feeling it's like getting rewarded with a piece of shit (as in a steaming pile of greenish brown...)

and that's it for the night!

Sorry about the intermission there, it was dumped on me well after I'd said Monday was our run day, so it was either that or postpone the quest till later in the week.

anyway, hope you all enjoyed, and I'll see you again next... oh, wait, next Tuesday is Christmas, isn't it? Well, I can run then anyhow. either then or Monday again, depending.

anyway, later on guys, come chat in the IRC if you want. if not, I'll catch ya next week.

>>22097333

thanks for the thread breh