Part 468: Sludge Factory - Turn 12

Sludge Factory: Tactical Update 12

The Regulator lurched as the hammer-blow of a Gauss Rifle slug struck it in the side. Interior armor plates bulged and deformed but didn’t give way and—thankfully—didn’t shatter and shower the crew compartment with shrapnel. The turret hummed as Captain Ferraro’s gunner corrected her aim. The long barrel of the Regulator’s Gauss Rifle pointed skyward at an empty place Ferraro had ordered. An instant later that empty green-tinted sky was filled with the hull of the strange, vulture-like Clan attack helicopter as it began drifting into a turn. It hung there, slow and vulnerable, for a long instant as its nose swung in line with the Regulator.

Ferraro’s gunner and the Clanner fired in the same instant, but Captain Ferraro didn’t get to see his crew’s shot cave in the combat copter’s cockpit. The white-hot lance of the Clanner’s laser sliced through the front of the Regulator like a scalpel, ruining the front skirt as it left a gaping two-meter hole in the front of the crew compartment. A wave of acrid smog mixed with the smoke of burning insulation seemed to devour the oxygen in the crew compartment like a hungry banth.

If Ferraro hadn’t been fortunate enough to see the shot that killed the Donar, he was unfortunate enough to see its broken airframe fall to earth. The explosion wasn’t anything spectacular, but the spinning coaxial rotors tore themselves apart the instant they struck the ground, peppering the Regulator—and Ferraro himself—with gravel and centimeter-long shards of aerospace-grade ferro-aluminum.








Indirect-Fire Artillery Targeting Phase
- Mobile Long Tom fires!



Movement Phase



Indirect-Fire Artillery Phase
- In the previous turn Mobile Long Tom fired Long Tom Artillery at hex 3623 (4 base + 7 indirect fire = 11): rolled 9, Margin of Failure 2!
- - Shell scatters into hex 3524!
- - Shell lands in hex 3525!



Combat Phase
ACE Sylph Point
- Fires Micro Pulse Laser at Tokugawa (4 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 1 enemy movement - 2 pulse laser = 6): rolled 6, hit Left Side (22/33 armor remaining)! CfMSD!
- Fires Micro Pulse Laser at Tokugawa (4 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 1 enemy movement - 2 pulse laser = 6): rolled 12, hit Turret (32/36 armor remaining)!
- Fires Micro Pulse Laser at Tokugawa (4 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 1 enemy movement - 2 pulse laser = 6): rolled 6, hit Left Side (19/33 armor remaining)!
- Fires Micro Pulse Laser at Tokugawa (4 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 1 enemy movement - 2 pulse laser = 6): rolled 9, hit Left Side (16/33 armor remaining)! TAC!

ACE Epona
- Fires Medium Pulse Laser at Mobile Long Tom (4 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 0 enemy movement - 2 pulse laser = 5): rolled 7, hit Front (9/16 armor remaining)!
- Fires Medium Pulse Laser at Mobile Long Tom (4 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 0 enemy movement - 2 pulse laser = 5): rolled 11, hit Front (2/16 armor remaining)! CfMSD!
- Fires Medium Pulse Laser at Mobile Long Tom (4 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 0 enemy movement - 2 pulse laser = 5): rolled 3, miss!
- Fires Medium Pulse Laser at Mobile Long Tom (4 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 0 enemy movement - 2 pulse laser = 5): rolled 7, hit Right Side (9/16 armor remaining)! CfMSD!
- Fires Streak SRM-4 at Mobile Long Tom (4 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 0 enemy movement = 7): rolled 8, 4 missiles hit Front (0/16 armor remaining Armor Breached!), Front (4/6 structure remaining (Crit!)), Front (2/6 structure remaining (CfMSD! Crit!)), Front (0/6 structure remaining (Vehicle Destroyed!))!

Manticore
- Turret twists to threaten right arc!
- Fires LRM-10 at Athena (4 base + 2 range + 0 movement + 0 enemy movement = 6): rolled 7, 6 missiles hit Front (33/38 armor remaining), Front (32/38 armor remaining)!
- Fires SRM-6 at Athena (4 base + 4 range + 0 movement + 0 enemy movement = 8): rolled 4, miss!

Manticore (LBX)
- Fires LB 10-X Autocannon (Cluster) at Donar (4 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 4 enemy movement - 3 cluster = 8): rolled 8, 6 submunitions hit Right Side (3/14 armor remaining), Right Side (2/14 armor remaining), Right Side (1/14 armor remaining), Rotors (1/2 armor remaining), Right Side (0/14 armor remaining (Armor Breached!)), Right Side (2/3 structure remaining (Crit!)!
- Fires Streak SRM-6 at Donar (4 base + 4 range + 1 movement + 4 enemy movement = 13): fails to lock-on!
- Fires Medium Pulse Laser at Anhur (4 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 0 enemy movement - 2 pulse laser = 5): target not in front firing arc!

Challenger X
- Fires LB 10-X Autocannon (Cluster) at Donar (4 base + 2 range + 0 movement + 4 enemy movement - 3 cluster = 7): rolled 4, miss (I also rolled a 2 on the cluster hit table for this attack )!
- Fires Gauss Rifle at Donar (4 base + 2 range + 0 movement + 4 enemy movement = 10): rolled 7, miss!
- Fires LRM-10 at Donar (4 base + 2 range + 0 movement + 4 enemy movement = 10): rolled 5, miss!

Wasp
- Holds fire!
- Gains 5 heat, sinks 10!

Hunter 1
- Fires ER Large Laser at Anhur (4 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 3 enemy movement = 9): rolled 3, miss!
- Fires Artemis LRM-15 at Horned Owl (4 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 3 enemy movement + 1 minimum range = 10): rolled 11, 3 missiles hit Center Torso (10/13 armor remaining)!

Tokugawa 2
- Turret twists to threaten Rear Arc!
- Fires LB 10-X Autocannon (Cluster) at Epona (4 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement - 1 cluster = 5): rolled 6, 6 clusters hit Rear (7/18 armor remaining (TAC!), Rear (6/18 armor remaining), Rear (5/18 armor remaining (CfMSD)), Rear (4/18 armor remaining), Rear (3/18 armor remaining), Turret (1/17 armor remaining)!
- Fires Artemis SRM-6 at Epona (4 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement = 6): rolled 7, miss!

Partisan 2
- Fires Autocannon/5 at Epona (4 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement = 6): rolled 7, hit Front (16/21 armor remaining)!
- Fires Autocannon/5 at Epona (4 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement = 6): rolled 11, hit Left Side (15/20 armor remaining)! CfMSD!
- Fires Autocannon/5 at Epona (4 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement = 6): rolled 6, hit Front (11/21 armor remaining)!
- Fires Autocannon/5 at Epona (4 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement = 6): rolled 5, miss!

Regulator
- Turret rotates to threaten Front Arc!
- Fires Gauss Rifle at Donar (4 base + 0 range + 1 movement + 4 enemy movement = 9): rolled 11, hit Front (0/16 armor, 0/3 structure remaining)! Vehicle destroyed!

Drillson
- Primary target too close!
- No line of Sight to secondary target!

PNT 10K2 Panther
- Fires ER PPC at Epona (4 base + 0 range + 3 movement + 0 enemy movement = 7): rolled 7, hit Left Side (5/20 armor remaining)! CfMSD!
- Fires SRM-4 at Epona (4 base + 0 range + 3 movement + 0 enemy movement = 7): rolled 10, 3 missiles hit Left Side (3/20 armor remaining (CfMSD!)), Left Side (1/20 armor remaining (CfMSD!)), Left Side (0/20 armor, 4/5 structure remaining (Crit!))!
- Fires SRM-4 at Epona (4 base + 0 range + 3 movement + 0 enemy movement = 7): rolled 7, 3 missiles hit Left Side (2/5 structure remaining (CfMSD!)), Left Side (0/5 structure remaining (Vehicle destroyed!)), Left Side!

Mobile Long Tom
- Holds fire!

Zorya 1
- Fires LB 5-X Autocannon (Cluster) at Wasp (4 base + 0 range + 0 movement + 3 enemy movement - 1 cluster = 6): rolled 7, 4 submunitions hit Left Torso (5/6 armor remaining), Left Arm (3/4 armor remaining (TAC!)), Right Leg (4/5 armor remaining), Left Leg (2/4 structure remaining (Crit!))!

Mars Assault Vehicle
- Fires ER Large Laser at Manticore (4 base + 4 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement - 4 immobile target = 6): rolled 8, hit Rear (16/26 armor remaining)!
- Fires Gauss Rifle at Manticore (4 base + 4 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement - 4 immobile target = 6): rolled 8, hit Rear (1/26 armor remaining)!

Anhur
- Fires ER Medium Laser at Manticore (4 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 stabilizer hit - 4 immobile target = 4): rolled 8, hit Left Side (27/34 armor remaining)! CfMSD!

Athena Combat Vehicle
- Fires Gauss Rifle at Regulator (4 base + 2 range + 0 movement + 1 enemy movement + 2 light woods = 9): rolled 6, miss!
- Fires Gauss Rifle at Regulator (4 base + 2 range + 0 movement + 1 enemy movement + 2 light woods = 9): rolled 9, hit Front (14/30 armor remaining)!
- Fires LRM-10 at Regulator (4 base + 2 range + 0 movement + 1 enemy movement + 2 light woods = 9): rolled 11, 6 missiles hit Front (9/30 armor remaining), Left Side (15/16 armor remaining)!
- Fires ER Medium Laser at Regulator (4 base + 2 range + 0 movement + 1 enemy movement + 2 light woods = 9): rolled 6, miss!
- Fires ER Medium Laser at Regulator (4 base + 2 range + 0 movement + 1 enemy movement + 2 light woods = 9): rolled 3, miss!

Donar
- Fires ER Large Laser at Regulator (4 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 1 enemy movement = 7): rolled 7, hit Front (0/30 armor, 4/5 structure remaining)! CfMSD! Armor Breached! Crit!

Horned Owl
- Fires Large Pulse Laser at Manticore (LBX) (4 base + 2 range + 3 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods - 2 Pulse Laser = 8): Rolled 12, hit Front (31/42 armor remaining)!
- Fires Medium Pulse Laser at Manticore (LBX) (4 base + 2 range + 3 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 light woods - 2 Pulse Laser = 8): Rolled 10, hit Right Side (27/33 armor remaining)! CfMSD!
- Gains 20 heat, sinks 20!



End Phase
Tokugawa
- Chance for Motive System Damage! Major damage sustained!
- - Vehicle immobilized!
- Through-armor critical chance in Left Side!
- - Engine hit! Vehicle immobilized!

Wasp
- Through-armor critical chance in Left Arm! No critical hit sustained!
- Critical chance in Left Leg! No critical hit sustained!

Manticore
- Chance for Motive System Damage! No effect!

Regulator
- Armor breached! Crew stunned!
- Chance for Motive System Damage! Heavy damage sustained!
- - Movement speed halved, +3 penalty to driving!
- Critical chance in Front!
- - Commander hit! Crew stunned, +1 penalty to driving, +1 penalty to-hit!

Manticore (LBX)
- Chance for Motive System Damage! Moderate damage sustained!
- - -1 Mp, +2 penalty to driving!








Player Status:



Opposing Force Status:




Mission Objective:
Capture the Coolant Factory (0/1)

Secondary Objectives:
Protect the Mobile Army Support Hospital from detection (0/1)
Defend the Mobile Army Support Hospital (0/1)
Locate the Clan Ammunition Dump (0/1)
Destroy the Clan Ammunition Dump (0/1)

Special Rules:
Caustic, Tainted Atmosphere (TacOps p56)
Vehicles suffer an automatic Crew Stunned if armor is breached, Mechwarriors take double damage from cockpit hits.
Point Commanders
As long as they are active combatants, the Mars Assault Vehicle and Epona Pursuit Tank may designate one unit each as an Ace for two turns. New Ace units may not be designated until Ace status expires. Units which opt to remain immobile for at least two turns gain Ace status on the first turn they move. BattleMechs and VTOLs may not be Aces.



Orders Due: Midnight Saturday!