Part 489: Behind Enemy Lines - Turn 7

Behind Enemy Lines: Tactical Update 7

“Yup, definitely another lance over here,” Hellhound confirmed. His Cerberus’s bulbous arms rose as he snapped off a couple of shots with his Gauss Rifles encouraging the new arrivals to keep their heads down and stay respectful. The enemy’s reply was immediate, the azure flash of a PPC passed meters over the Cerberus’s left shoulder. A flight of LRMs fell short, peppering the rusty soil with explosions.

Bergit Lowe kicked her Nightstar into gear. Hers was the slowest machine in the company. Unlike the rest of the lance, she had to balance the need to attack with their need to escape later without abandoning her machine. Major Marik’s life hung in the balance, true, but she wasn’t about to let the Capellans get their hands on her `Mech.

“Any idea what we’ve got, L—” she corrected herself midway through saying LT, “—hound?”

“I can only see one,” the Lieutenant said. “It’s new. Damn the Helm core, the Capellans are catching up faster than I’d like.”

“Who knows what else they’ve been up to,” Bad grumbled. “I keep hearing rumors about salvaged ‘Clan’ `Mechs on the market. Maybe they’re reverse engineering the things.”

“If they are, we are,” Bergit pointed out. “I wouldn’t worry about that. Just having a machine doesn’t give you enough technical expertise to build one. They’re probably just doing the same thing we are: taking existing frames or recovered blueprints, modifying them a bit, and putting on different armor arrangements to see what works best against Lostech weapons. That’s why the Cerberus’s armor is rounded: with luck it’ll deflect a Gauss Rifle round rather than letting one punch straight through.”








Movement Phase
Maelstrom (Player)
- Generating Ghost Targets on War Dog (4 base + 2 ECM Tuning = 6): rolled 5, fails!



Shooting Phase
War Dog (Player)
- Fires Gauss Rifle at Wyvern (4 base + 0 range + 1 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 dusk = 7): rolled 9, hit Rear Right Torso (0/5 armor, 1/11 structure remaining)! TAC!
- Fires Large Pulse Laser at Wyvern (4 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 dusk - 2 pulse laser = 7): rolled 9, Right Arm (0/7 structure remaining)!
- - Damage transfers to Rear Right Torso (0/11 structure remaining)
- - Damage transfers to Rear Center Torso (0/5 armor, 3/14 structure remaining)! Crit!
- Fires Medium Pulse Laser at Wyvern (4 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 dusk - 2 pulse laser = 7): rolled 8, Right Arm Center Torso (0/14 structure remaining)! `Mech destroyed!
- Fires Medium Pulse Laser at Wyvern (4 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 dusk - 2 pulse laser = 7): rolled 9, Right Arm Center Torso!
- Fires Streak SRM-2 One-Shot at Wyvern (4 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 dusk = 9): rolled 2, fails to lock-on!
- Fires Streak SRM-2 One-Shot at Wyvern (4 base + 2 range + 1 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 dusk = 9): rolled 7, fails to lock-on!
- Gains 20 heat, sinks 20!

Nightstar (Player)
- Holds fire!
- Gains 2 heat, sinks 28!

Maelstrom (Player)
- Target destroyed!
- Gains 2 heat, sinks 34!

Cerberus (Player)
- Fires Gauss Rifle at Yu Huang (4 base + 4 range + 1 movement + 2 enemy movement + 1 dusk = 12): rolled 7, miss!
- Fires Gauss Rifle at Yu Huang (4 base + 4 range + 1 movement + 2 enemy movement + 1 dusk = 12): rolled 6, miss!
- Gains 2 heat, sinks 30!

Wyvern
- Torso-twists to threaten hex 0722!
- Fires Large Pulse Laser at War Dog (4 base + 2 range + 2 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 dusk - 2 pulse laser = 8): rolled 10, hit Left Leg (18/28 armor remaining)!
- Fires Medium Pulse Laser at War Dog (4 base + 2 range + 2 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 dusk - 2 pulse laser = 8): rolled 9, hit Left Arm (18/24 armor remaining)!
- Fires Medium Pulse Laser at War Dog (4 base + 2 range + 2 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 dusk - 2 pulse laser = 8): rolled 8, hit Right Leg (22/28 armor remaining)! TAC!
- Gains 27 heat, sinks 20!

Sha-yu
- Fires ER Large Laser at Car (4 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 2 enemy movement + 1 dusk = 9): rolled 5, miss!
- Fires ER Large Laser at Car (4 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 2 enemy movement + 1 dusk = 9): rolled 9, hit (0/1 structure remaining)! Vehicle destroyed!
- Gains 26 heat, sinks 26!

Yu Huang
- Fires ER PPC at Cerberus (3 base + 4 range + 2 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 dusk = 11): rolled 10, miss!
- Fires LRM-10 at Cerberus (3 base + 4 range + 2 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 dusk = 11): rolled 5, miss!
- Gains 21 heat, sinks 26!

Thunder
- Gains 2 heat, sinks 22!

Penetrator
- Gains 2 heat, sinks 24!

Jinggau
- Gains 2 heat, sinks 26!



End Phase
War Dog (Player)
- Through-Armor Critical chance in Right Leg! No critical hit sustained!









Player Status:




Opposing Force Status:




Neutral Status




Mission Objective:
- Protect Carlos Marik (0/1)

Secondary Objectives:
- Damage but don’t destroy the Civillian `Mechbay in hex 0517 (1/1)
- Destroy the Capellan Checkpoint in hex 1418 (1/1)
- - Make it look like an accident (?/1)
- Avoid Antagonizing ComStar (0/1)

Vengeance Counter: 3



Special Rules:
Dusk – This mission takes place at dusk, applying a +1 penalty to-hit. This penalty may worsen if the mission lasts long enough for night to fall.

Escort Mission – This mission has a mobile objective that must be defended.



Orders Due: Midnight Saturday!