Part 268: Jeronimo Campaign Turn 6

Jeronimo Campaign Turn 6

Incredulous laughter laced with pain filled the comms. “You don’t know. That old fool Tithon Yeh didn’t tell you.”

“You have gone mad, brother.” Tjris’ deep voice replied. “Remain where you are, we will put you out of your misery soon enough.”

“Neg,” Wilberforce’s laughter only intensified. “You have lost this, Tjris and we both know it. What we do not have is the time to prove it to you. Those ships—those ’Mechs in orbit? They are the forces of Coordinator-Prince Hanse Davion, and his laughable Draconis Suns. The men and women you fight here?”

Wilberforce leaned over his controls, scowling at the pilot of the too-close Wolf Spider. “They are Capellan Death Commandos. They traveled across the breadth of the Inner Sphere. They braved hundreds of light years of enemy territory. Their attack was never about claiming this world, it was all for the honor of pitting themselves against the best warriors the Inner Sphere has ever seen. They came to fight us!”

The barrels of Tjris Amirault’s heavy lasers rose, “and I have given them a fight.”

“Use your head, brother. Or were your brains taken from you after I was turned over to the motor pool?” Wilberforce rocked his Cyclops on its hips, turning his back to Amirault’s Gargoyle. “Neither of us have the forces to oppose Davion’s landing now. These men and women hate Hanse Davion above all else. They came all this way to fight us and to humiliate him by taking one of our worlds before he could do so. Concede defeat, and we will grant you safcon to the starport and fight our way through Hanse Davion’s forces together. Join us in laughing in the face of Prince Hanse Davion as he seizes a strategically valueless world with none of the technology he lusts for.”

Tjris’s voice wavered. “This contest is undecided.”

“This was always a trial of possession,” Wilberforce mused. “So let us change the objectives. If you win, you will be free to reclaim this world. If we win, you and your remaining men will accompany us to the Capellan Confederation. Whichever of our forces defeats more of Hanse Davion’s men shall claim the final victory.”

“You stand to gain much.”

Wilberforce smiled, “Just think of the glory if you win.”

The comms. went silent for a few moments, then the Hell’s Horses stood down. “Bargained well and done,” Tjris replied. “You are correct in one regard, Wil. You know me too well.”



Campaign Map


Emergency Repairs
- Structure damage partially repaired!
- Banshee IIC’s IS PPC replaced with a Clan ER PPC!
- Cyclops IIC’s Ultra AC/20 replaced!
- Cougar Prime reconfigured to Cougar D!
- Wolf Spider E reconfigured to Wolf Spider A



Battalion Company Status:

Company Xi
Xi1) Piet (p4g3)- Banshee IIC (Status: Ok!)
Xi2) Lukas Boehm (p2g1) - ARC-2R Archer (Status: Damaged!)
Xi3) Nkiruka Olisaemeka (p2g1) - PO-2L Po (Status: Field Refit!)
Xi4) Jabel Jaime Meraz (p1g0) - MLN-1A Merlin (jump jets) (Status: Ok!)
Xi5) Shin Hytönen (p1g1) - MAD-3L Marauder (Status: Ok!)
Xi6) Tanta Hogpen (p2g1 (3+)) - BJ-1DB Blackjack (jump jets) (Status: Ok!)
Xi7) Reece Collier(p2g1 (3+)) - DV-6M Dervish (jump jets) (Status:Ok!)
Xi8) Alimah Hayaam Attia (p2g1 (3+))- VND-1R Vindicator (jump jets) (Status: OK!)
Xi9) Chiyoe Takahasi (p2g1 (3+)) - MON-67 Mongoose (Status: Ok!)
Xi10) Louw Bouman (p2g1) - Cyclops IIC (Status: Ok!)
Xi11) Steve (p4[2]g3) - Exterminator IIC (Status: Ok!)
Xi12) Emil Voronov – Atlas (Status: Damaged!)

Echo Star
H1) Star Captain Tjris Amirault (g1p1) - Gargoyle Tjris (jump jets) (Status: Ok!)
H2) Kiren Ravenwater (g3p4) - Wolf Spider A (Status: Ok!)
H3) Nicodemus (g3p4) - Mad Dog Prime (Status: Ok!)
H4) Hastur (g3p4) - Rifleman IIC (Status: Ok!)
H5) Destry Cobb (g3p4) - Stormcrow H (Status: Ok!)

Foxtrot Star
H6) Talyn Hell Horse - Cougar D (Status: Ok!)

Dispossessed:
Xi) Ethan Parkinson (p2g1 (3+))

Bondsmen:
B1) Piet (p4g3) - “Spiteful,” -3 to hit any target firing at Talyn Hell Horse
B2) Steve (p4g3) - Blindside

Clan Pilots:
H1) Tjris Amirault (p1g1) - EI Implants
H2) Kiren Ravenwater (p4g3) - Clan Neural Implants
H3) Nicodemus (p4g3) - Clan Neural Implants
H4) Hastur (p4g3) - “Impending Doom,” if Hastur strikes the same location with two weapons, all other weapons strike that location with a confirmation roll of 5, 6, or 7. “Humiliate,” at the beginning of a shooting phase Hastur may voluntarily attempt to humiliate an opponent, rerolling any duplicate hit locations (once).
H5) Destry Cobb (p4g3) - Clan Neural Implants
H6) Talyn Hell Horse (g3p4) - Draw Fire enemy units within 3 hexes always fire at Talyn Hell Horse unless another target threatens them more

Too Injured to Fight:
Yan) Terrace Williams (11+)
Yan) Urjasz Sobczak (7+)
Yan) Zdenko Horvat (5+)
Ox) Phùng Tan Tuy (9+)
Ox) Jafar Nur al Din Issa (7+)
Ox) Zoja Nowicka (9+)
Horse) Xiang Chiu (7+)
Bondsman) Tegrin (7+)
Bondsman) Miranda (p4g3 (7+)) - Useless
Bondsman) Wilberforce (p2g0 (5+)) - Coward, Command and Control Freak, Reverts to a 2/2 in a ground vehicle

Dead:
Yan) Xiang Yi
Yan) Cong Tsui
Yan) Iskander Vassiliev
Ox) Hob Sibenik
Ox) Luan Araujo Carvalho
Ox) Joseph Lapresse
Ox) Gustave Allaire
Ox) Yu Ts'ai
Ox) Ilve Duran Leiva
Horse) Petrit Hul
Horse) Lucilla Iadanza
Horse) Karolin Ostermann
Horse) Faruz Neftalem
Horse) Quennel Pelletier
Horse) Antonina Balashova
Horse) Fai Chiang
Xi) Lian Chia



Mission Objectives
- Fight to the Dropships
- Defeat All Enemies

OR

- Keep Davion forces away from the Dropships

Secondary Objectives
- Death Commandos: Secure More Kills than the Hell’s Horses (0/40)
- Hell’s Horses: Secure More Kills than the Death Commandos (0/40)