Part 328: Steel Will - Turn 4
Steel Will: Tactical Update 4Movement Phase
Wolverine
-Insufficient MP to enter target hex!
Rifleman
- Must roll 5+ to stand: rolled 9, succeeds!
Combat Phase
Impact Point Zero
2) Griffin
- Fires ER PPC at Rifleman (4 base + 0 range + 3 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 EM Interference = 8): Rolled 6, miss!
- Fires SRM-6 at Rifleman (4 base + 2 range + 3 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 EM Interference = 10): Rolled 4, miss!
- Fires SRM-6 at Rifleman (4 base + 2 range + 3 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 EM Interference = 10): Rolled 7, miss!
- Gains 28 heat, sinks 22
- Overheating!
3) Enfield
- Fires LB-10X (cluster) at Rifleman (4 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 EM Interference - 1 Cluster = 6): rolled 8, 8 submunitions hit Right Torso (11/14 structure remains (Crit!)), Head (8/9 armor remains (Pilot Hit!)), Right Leg (12/15 armor remains), Right Torso (10/14 structure remains (Crit!)), Right Torso(9/14 structure remains (Crit!)), Right Arm (14/15 armor remains), Left Leg (14/15 armor remains), Center Torso (15/20 structure remains (Crit!))!
- Fires Large Pulse Laser at Rifleman (4 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 EM Interference - 2 Pulse Laser = 5): rolled 7, hit Right Arm (4/15 armor remains)!
- Fires Medium Laser at Rifleman (4 base + 2 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 EM Interference = 9): rolled 6, miss!
- Fires Medium Laser at Rifleman (4 base + 2 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 EM Interference = 9): rolled 4, miss!
- Gains 20 heat, sinks 22
7) Huron Warrior
- Fires ER Large Laser at Rifleman (4 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 EM Interference = 7): rolled 5, miss!
- Fires Gauss Rifle at Rifleman (4 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 EM Interference = 7): rolled 10, hit Right Leg (0/15 armor, 8/10 structure remains (Crit!))!
- Fires Medium Pulse Laser at Rifleman (4 base + 2 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 partial cover + 1 EM Interference - 2 Pulse = 7): rolled 7, hit Center Torso (9/20 structure remains (Crit!))!
- Gains 19 heat, sinks 17
4) Wolverine
- Fires Large Pulse Laser at Hunter Light Support Tank (4 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 EM Interference - 2 Pulse Laser = 5): rolled 7, hit Front (22/32 armor remains)!
- Fires Medium Pulse Laser at Hunter Light Support Tank (4 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 EM Interference - 2 Pulse Laser = 5): rolled 11, hit Front (16/32 armor remains)! Crit!
- Fires Small Pulse Laser at Hunter Light Support Tank (4 base + 2 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 EM Interference - 2 Pulse Laser = 7): rolled 7, hit Front (13/32 armor remains)!
- Fires SRM-6 at Hunter Light Support Tank (4 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 EM Interference = 7): rolled 6, miss!
- Fires SRM-6 at Hunter Light Support Tank (4 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 EM Interference = 7): rolled 11, 4 missiles hit Front (11/32 armor remains), Front (9/32 armor remains), Front (7/32 armor remains), Front (5/32 armor remains (Chance for Motive System Damage!))!
- Gains 27 heat, sinks 26
Talos II
- Torso Twists to threaten hex 0422!
- Fires LRM-5 at Griffin (4 base + 2 range + 2 movement + 3 enemy movement + 1 EM Interference = 12): rolled 8, miss!
- Fires LRM-5 at Griffin (4 base + 2 range + 2 movement + 3 enemy movement + 1 EM Interference = 12): rolled 5, miss!
- Fires LRM-5 at Griffin (4 base + 2 range + 2 movement + 3 enemy movement + 1 EM Interference = 12): rolled 3, miss!
- Gains 6 weapon heat
Bobcat
- Holds fire!
- Gains 0 weapon heat
Cronus
- Fires Large Laser at Huron Warrior (4 base + 2 range + 3 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 EM Interference + 1 partial cover = 12): rolled 4, miss!
- Gains 8 weapon heat
Rifleman
- Fires Autocannon/10 at Wolverine (4 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 EM Interference = 9): rolled 4, miss!
- Fires Autocannon/10 at Wolverine (4 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 EM Interference = 9): rolled 9, hit Rear Center Torso (0/10 armor remains)!
- Gains 6 weapon heat
Rommel Heavy Tank!
- Fires LRM-5 at Enfield (4 base + 0 range + 1 movement + 3 enemy movement + 1 EM Interference = 9): rolled 7, miss!
Hunter Light Support Tank
- Fires LRM-20 at Enfield (4 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 3 enemy movement + 1 EM Interference + 1 partial cover = 12): Rolled 10, miss!
Yantai Reservation
9 Watchman
- Fires Large Laser at Toro (4 base + 2 range + 3 movement + 2 enemy movement = 11): rolled 6, miss!
- Gains 13 heat, sinks 12
10) Blackjack
- Fires PPC at Toro (4 base + 2 range + 0 movement + 2 enemy movement = 8): rolled 6, miss!
- Fires PPC at Toro (4 base + 2 range + 0 movement + 2 enemy movement = 8): rolled 4, miss!
- Gains 21 heat, sinks 20
11) Raven
- Holds Fire!
- Gains 2 heat, sinks 12
12) Firebee
- Fires Large Laser at Toro (4 base + 0 range + 3 movement + 2 enemy movement = 9): rolled 9, hit Right Leg (4/14 armor remains)!
- Gains 13 heat, sinks 10
Cicada
- Fires ER PPC at Blackjack (4 base + 4 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 smoke = 11): rolled 7, miss!
- Gains 15 weapon heat
Phoenix
- Fires PPC at Watchman (4 base + 4 range + 3 movement + 3 enemy movement = 14): automatic miss!
- Gains 10 weapon heat
Toro
- Fires PPC at Firebee (4 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 3 enemy movement + 1 partial cover + 1 minimum range = 11): rolled 10, miss!
- Gains 10 weapon heat
Quasit
- Holds Fire!
- Gains 0 weapon heat
Drillson Heavy Hovertank
- Holds Fire!
Plainsman Hovertank
- Holds Fire!
End Phase:
Rifleman
- Must pass a 3+ consciousness test: rolled 7, succeeds!
- Critical Chance in Right Torso! 1 critical hit sustained!
- - Autocannon/10 ammo hit!
- Rifleman suffers 70 damage to Right Torso (0/14 structure remains)!
- - Damage transfers to Center Torso (0/20 structure remains)! `Mech destroyed!
- Critical Chance in Right Torso! No critical hits sustained!
- Critical Chance in Right Torso! 1 critical hits sustained!
- Critical Chance in Center Torso! 2 critical hits sustained!
- Critical Chance in Center Torso! No critical hits sustained!
- Critical Chance in Right Leg! No critical hits sustained!
Hunter Light Support Tank
- Front Critical Chance! No critical hit sustained!
- Chance for Motive System Damage! Minor damage sustained!
Physical Combat Phase:
Huron Warrior
- Kicks Rommel (5 base + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement - 2 kick = 5): rolled 11, hit Front (30/40 armor remains)!
Otaktay Red Cloud stared dispassionately as the Taurian Rifleman blew itself apart, though he couldn’t say whether it was his shot or that of the strangely modified New Syrtis Enforcer that had scored the killing blow. The taciturn young man was as grim in the face of his foe’s death as he would be in the face of his own; he took no joy in the killing nor did he fear his own demise. Death was simply a thing that happened, the only thing that mattered was meeting it well.
When the battalion’s ships had been struck in space by an attacker they could not hurt, when his company’s DropShip had crashed headlong into the unforgiving earth, Otaktay alone had been calm and in the face of his calm the universe had perhaps decided that it was not yet Otaktay’s time to die.
Relations between his people and the Capellan Confederation had been largely cold. Although the Confederation itself cared little what religious ceremonies the Lakota chose to practice; the tribe’s outright rejection of the Korvin Doctrine had long made the administration nervous. To the Lakota, the individual was still important. They refused to simply be subsumed by a centralized government; or to let the teachings of a five-thousand-year-old dead man dictate how one ought to behave.
The Sioux were a nation all their own; and while Confucius had said a great many things about a great many people; he had said very little of interest to the Lakota.
Otaktay suspected that were it not for Warrior House Dai Da Chi’s aggressive recruitment and the tribe’s propensity to join the military, Maximillian Liao would have grown tired of the tribe’s stubborn semi-independence. Otaktay himself had once been offered a chance to compete for an opening in Dai Da Chi but he’d turned the opportunity down so that his youngest brother might earn some honor. Even now, with his unit decimated, he did not regret his choice.
He twisted in the cockpit, feeling the comfortable weight of the traditional red sash tied around his waist. The end was anchored securely to a bolt he’d driven through the armored floor. The sash was a promise and a reassurance, like the needler pistols favored by the regular pilots of his command. Unlike those others, Otaktay carried no sidearm into battle: he had no intention of being shot out of his `Mech. He would remain on the field until all the enemy were dead. Or he was.
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“Woah, definitely hostile!” Sergeant Peter Summers said as the azure whip of a PPC beam flashed perhaps a meter in front of his Blackjack. Dorian shook his head at the exclamation, though the heavy neurohelmet resting on his shoulders resisted the movement. His Watchman responded in kind, it’s wedge-shaped cockpit traversing back and forth in response to his neuro-impulses.
“What, you thought maybe they’d come to help us dig?” Incredulity crept into his wife’s voice.
“They could’ve been survivors, y’know? Our survivors, I mean,” Summers replied defensively.
Dorian sighed, squelching them with a thumb-press. “Call targets,” he said calmly. “And focus fire—”
“Two Milk Cartons with a PPC,” Anne called out as she leapt towards the base of a rocky bluff. “Calling primary. It’s slow as fuck for a light `Mech, should be an easy takedown.”
As if to punctuate her point, the Firebee’s pistol-like Large Laser flickered for an instant as it put a terawatt into a target he couldn’t see. Dorian leapt forward as she crowed exultantly.
“Roger, focus fire on the Toro if you can,” he acquiesced as the enemy `Mech swung into view. His own large laser flashed as the enemy `Mech retreated behing the bluffs. An instant later Peter’s PPCs filled the space it’d just vacated. “Do not pursue. Shift primary to—whatever the hell that blobby thing is.”
Delta Battle Lance “The Avenging Angels” Primary Objectives:
- Survive (incomplete)
- Rescue Capellan Survivors (incomplete)
Delta Battle Lance “The Avenging Angels” Secondary Objectives:
- Destroy the Capellan Survivors* (incomplete)
- Defeat Taurian Forces (incomplete)
2nd Lance, 1st Company, 3rd Chesterton Voltigeurs Primary Objectives:
- Survive (incomplete)
- Link up with the New Syrtis Rescue Party (incomplete)
2nd Lance, 1st Company, 3rd Chesterton Voltigeurs Primary Objectives:
- Destroy the New Syrtis Rescue Party* (incomplete)
- Defeat Taurian Forces (incomplete)
India Recon Lance “The Last Report” Primary Objectives:
- Survive (incomplete)
- Defeat Taurian Forces (incomplete)
India Recon Lance “The Last Report” Secondary Objectives:
- Defend the Fallout Bunker Entrance (incomplete)
- Use the Raven’s equipment to confirm the condition of the six bunkers and the number (if any) of the survivors (1/6)
Point Zero Enemy Movement Mods:
- Talos II – Ran +2
- Bobcat – Ran +3
- Cronus – Walked +1
- Hunter – Flanked +2
- Patton – Cruised +1
Yantai Reservation Enemy Movement Mods:
- Cicada – Jumped +4
- Phoenix – Ran +2
- Toro – Ran +1
- Quasit II – Walked +1
- Drillson – Flanked +4
- Plainsman – Cruised +2
Player Status:
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