Part 303: Hogarth's Heroes - Turn 2
Hogarth’s Heroes: Tactical Update 2Combat Phase
1) Hogarth’s Atlas II
- Holds fire!
2) Steiner’s Awesome
- Holds fire!
3) Vasquez’s Banshee
- Fires PPC at Javelin Red 6 (3 base + 4 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods + 1 partial cover = 11): rolled 12, hit Left Torso (0/8 armor, 5/7 structure remains)! Cini-Crit!
- Fires PPC at Javelin Red 6 (3 base + 4 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods + 1 partial cover = 11): rolled 4, miss!
4) Schultz’s Zeus
- Fires PPC at Javelin Red 6 (3 base + 4 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 2 light woods + 1 partial cover = 12): rolled 7, !
- Fires Large Laser at Javelin Red 6 (3 base + 4 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 2 light woods + 1 partial cover = 12): rolled 5, !
- Fires Large Laser at Javelin Red 6 (3 base + 4 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 2 light woods + 1 partial cover = 12): rolled 6, !
- Fires LRM-15 at Javelin Red 6 (3 base + 2 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 2 light woods + 1 partial cover = 10): rolled 11, 12 missiles hit Right Leg (3/8 armor remains), Center Torso (3/8 armor remains), Right Leg (1/8 armor remains)!
End Phase:
Javelin Red 6
- Cinematic Critical Chance! 2 Cine-Crits sustained!
- - Fruit Vendor demolished!
- - Cardboard Boxes destroyed!
“I’m on the ground,” Vasquez announced, “her” deep falsetto voice and stocky figure not matching the slender woman who would be crawling into and out of the Banshee’s cockpit on the silver screen. Hogarth was a firm believer in verisimilitude however, and only the battlefield reactions of a real `Mechwarrior would do. Anything else could be edited in post, but the `Mech combat had to look real and sound real and from Hogarth’s experience no studio sound-booth could replicate the sounds of a pilot fighting for his or her life.
“I’m down too. That’s the last of us,” Hogarth replied, pressing the button that would trigger the release of his own massive parachute. He twisted his Atlas in place, bringing the barrel of his arm-mounted “rotary autocannon” up to speed in a menacing fashion. “Major Steiner, Colonel Schultz, you’re our scouts. Get those light `Mechs of yours in gear, I want the enemy’s forces found pronto!”
“Enemy contact, bearing two-zero-zero,” Schultz announced a moment later as he let fly with his long-range armament.
“Confirmed,” Vasquez replied sourly. Without any remorse she let loose with her PPCs. Her target, a distant and unprepared Javelin staggered as her PPC scoured the armor from its left torso. It staggered backwards, its massive foot toppling a cart of fruit and sending the out-of-place vendor careening into a pile of cardboard boxes. Luck was with it, however, as neither of those extremely volatile objects burst into flames or exploded.
Primary Objectives
Rescue Melissa Steiner and Clovis Holstein (0/2)
Defeat Richard Cameron (0/1)
Secondary Objectives
One of Hogarth’s Heroes“dies” dramatically, but no more than one (0/1)
Hogarth kills the ghost with his Ghost-Killer PPC (0/1)
Cross the Streams (0/4)
Hidden Objectives
Piles of Cardboard Boxes Destroyed: 1
Fruit Carts Destroyed: 1
[Unknown]
[Unknown]
Key:
Blue1) Atlas II
Blue2) Awesome
Blue3) Banshee
Blue4) Zeus
Enemy `Mech Key
Red1) Battlemaster – Ran, 2
Red2) Dragon – Ran, 3
Red3) Kintaro – Ran, 2
Red4) Black Knight – Stationary, 0
Red5) Panther 1 – Ran, 2
Red6) Javelin – Jumped, 2
Red7) Wolf Trap – Ran, 3
Red8) Panther 2 – Ran, 2
Player `Mech Status
Enemy `Mech Status
Cinematic Crit Table
2 – Railing Kill / Protagonist Injured!
3 – Stunned Enemy / Protagonist Flesh Wound!
4 – Huge Random Explosion!
5 – Fruit Vendor Demolished / Chickens Escape / Outhouse Detonates!
6 – Cardboard Boxes Destroyed!
7 – Wilhelm Scream / Flubbed Line!
8 – Wooden Boxes Destroyed!
9 – Explosive Barrels Explode Unexpectedly!
10 – Something Catches Fire / THARKAD PIDGEON ATTACK!
11 – Delayed Casualty / Protagonist Flesh Wound!
12 – Kneecapped / Protagonist Injured!
Disclaimer: The Cinimatic Crit Table may change randomly if I get a better idea