Part 337: Steel Will - Turn 13

Steel Will: Tactical Update 13

Last Turn Correction
- The Drillson was unable to fire its Large Laser, damage to the Blackjack’s cockpit and the pilot hit taken have been reverted!

Initiative Phase
- Delta Battle Lance, Sirdar DNS Militia: Rolled 3!
- 2nd Lance, 3rd Chesterton Voltigeurs: Rolled 6!
Capellan Forces win initiative!



Movement Phase



Combat Phase
Impact Point Zero
2) Griffin
- Fires ER PPC at Huron Warrior (4 base + 0 range + 3 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 EM Radiation = 9): rolled 10, hit Right Arm (1/16 armor remains)!
- Gains 20 heat, sinks 22!

3) Enfield
- Fires LB-10X (CLUSTER) at Wolverine (4 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 EM Interference - 1 cluster = 8): rolled 8, 4 submunitions hit Right Arm (12/18 armor remains), Left Torso (10/20 armor remains), Head (6/9 armor remains (Pilot Hit!)), Left Torso (9/20 armor remains)!
- Fires Large Pulse Laser at Wolverine (4 base + 4 range + 1 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 EM Interference - 2 Pulse Laser = 9): rolled 8, miss!
- Gains 13 heat, sinks 22!

7) Huron Warrior
- Fires Gauss Rifle at Hunter (4 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 EM Interference = 8): rolled 4, miss!
- Gains 2 heat, sinks 17!

4) Wolverine
- Holds fire!
- Gains 5 heat, sinks 26!

Cronus
- Holds fire!
- Gains 0 weapon heat!

Hunter Light Support Tank
- Fires LRM-20 at Griffin (4 base + 0 range + 0 movement + 3 enemy movement + 1 EM Interference + 1 minimum range = 9): Rolled 6, miss!



Yantai Reservation
9) Watchman
- Fires Medium Laser at Cicada (4 base + 0 range + 3 movement + 4 enemy movement = 11): rolled 7, miss!
- Fires Medium Laser at Cicada (4 base + 0 range + 3 movement + 4 enemy movement = 11): rolled 6, miss!
- Fires Machine Gun at Cicada (4 base + 0 range + 3 movement + 4 enemy movement = 11): rolled 7, miss!
- Fires Machine Gun at Cicada (4 base + 0 range + 3 movement + 4 enemy movement = 11): rolled 6, miss!
- Gains 12 heat, sinks 12!

10) Blackjack
- Reverses Right Arm!
- Fires PPC at Plainsman (4 base + 2 range + 3 movement + 2 enemy movement = 11): rolled 4, miss!
- Gains 15 heat, sinks 20!

11) Raven
- Gains 1 heat, sinks 12!

Cicada
- Fires Medium Laser at Watchman (4 base + 0 range + 3 movement + 3 enemy movement = 10): rolled 7, miss!
- Fires Medium Laser at Watchman (4 base + 0 range + 3 movement + 3 enemy movement = 10): rolled 12, hit Left Arm (2/12 armor remains)!
- Gains 6 weapon heat!

Phoenix
- Fires PPC at Watchman (4 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 3 enemy movement = 10): rolled 6, miss!
- Gains 10 weapon heat!

Plainsman Hovertank
- Holds fire!



End Phase:
Wolverine
- Must pass a 5+ consciousness test! Rolled 12, succeeds!





“Do you think it’s safe to go up now?”

“Not on your life, kid,” Chief Technician Calliope Granger flicked her half-finished cigarette into a parabolic descent into the nearly pitch-black Mechbay. She watched its slow fall from her position atop Bunker 5’s loading gantry. The orange glow intensified as it fell as tobacco and paper burned more intensely, then dashed itself out in an explosion of orange sparks against the ferrocrete floor nearly two stories below.

“You let that uranium dust in here and we all die.”

“That’s what the back bunker’s for,” Procyon “Cy” Tryne grumbled. The kid was lanky and lean, and the bulky cooling vest he wore made him look gaunt. His eyes were sunken, his narrow face lit only by the six red emergency lights scattered at key points throughout the bay. They’d gone low-power when The Bunker’s seismic sensors detected the stomping of `Mech feet and everyone not near one of those lights had frozen in place rather than bumble around in the darkness tripping over barrels of toxic coolant or the stores of live ammunition. Cy frowned, his expression grim but determined. Calliope didn’t think much of his intelligence but she could respect his resolve.

“Look, kid,” she grunted. A little lie wouldn’t hurt, to keep the kid from doing something stupid. “We’re all worried about the Colonel; but he’s tough. He can take care of himself.”

“He’s dead,” Cy said with absolute certainty. “The seismics were showing probable weapons-fire—”

“How the hell did—”

Cy stuck his thumb at the dome-shaped `Mech at his back. “I tapped in. Anyway, whoever’s up there is fighting. That means it’s a rescue party.”

“Or Capellan party-crashers chasing them off,” Calliope countered. “Friendlies would’ve radioed, kid.”

“Main hallway’s flooded. What if the communications center’s toast?”

“We’ve got power,” that we’re not using, she added mentally. “The comm. center’s fine. Those’re Capellans up there.”

Cy shook his head, “Shooting at themselves? Sergeant Major, that doesn’t make any sense and you know it. That’s a lance of our people, fighting a lance of Capellans. I can turn the tide, save our people; and get you and your Technicians out of this pit. Let me launch.”

The aging technician stared at Cy in silence as she considered her options. He made some good points but as far as she knew he’d never been through any real pilot training. Chances are, if she let him launch he’d get himself killed. Then again, the Colonel had entrusted the kid with the command codes for his `Mech; and the mechbay wasn’t exactly provisioned for an extended stay like the other bunkers were. Plus, the Capellans weren’t likely to actually kill technicians when they could be captured, interrogated, and made to reform into good citizens. Or whatever it was they called their peasants.

Calliope took one last glance at Cy’s thin-lipped frown and made her decision. Leaning carefully over the railing, she shouted to her second in command, “Max! Bring us up to full power and get everyone in the rear bunker! We’re cracking the dome so the kid can launch!”

She turned back, cutting off his “thank you” with a piercing glare. “Before you go, slide some armor boxes and hide the door to the central corridor. If you get taken out, I don’t want those Capellan assholes finding our staff officers’ families.”

She slapped him on the shoulder, “And bring this goddamned `Mech back in one piece! I haven’t spent six months working on it just to watch you get blown the hell up.”



Delta Battle Lance “The Avenging Angels” Primary Objectives:
- Survive (incomplete)
- Destroy the Capellan Survivors (incomplete)

Delta Battle Lance “The Avenging Angels” Secondary Objectives:
- Rescue Capellan Survivors (failed)
- Defeat Taurian Forces (failed)

2nd Lance, 1st Company, 3rd Chesterton Voltigeurs Primary Objectives:
- Survive (incomplete)
- Destroy the New Syrtis Rescue Party (incomplete)

2nd Lance, 1st Company, 3rd Chesterton Voltigeurs Secondary Objectives:
- Link up with the New Syrtis Rescue Party (failed)
- Defeat Taurian Forces (failed)

India Recon Lance “The Last Report” Primary Objectives:
- Retreat?
- Defeat Taurian Forces (incomplete)

India Recon Lance “The Last Report” Secondary Objectives:
- Defend the Fallout Bunker Entrance (failed)
- Use the Raven’s equipment to confirm the condition of the six bunkers and the number (if any) of the survivors (failed)







Point Zero Enemy Movement Mods:
- Cronus – Jumped +3
- Hunter – Stationary +0

Yantai Reservation Enemy Movement Mods:
- Cicada – Ran +3
- Phoenix – Ran +2
- Plainsman – Flanked +3

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