Part 647: Retaking Sirdar - Turn 4

Retaking Sirdar Update 4

“Scout down,” Lt. Lancelot Patterson announced as a Pegasus hovercraft coasted to a stop. It’d gotten a shot off, showering Corporal Daniels’ Watchman with SRMs and scoring an angry orange line across the medium `Mech’s left breast. The Watchman was a reliable machine, rugged and easy for a new or inexperienced pilot to master, but it wasn’t a powerhouse. Lancelot brought his Orion a little closer, backing up the younger pilot in an effort to draw some attention himself.

He didn’t dare zoom too closely on the tank he’d crippled, he knew precisely what the splash of red on the inside of the driver’s canopy meant. Unlike `Mechs, even little tanks were often full of people—and those people were the most vulnerable of their components. One bad hit, an SRM exploding in the wrong place or at the wrong time, and every man and woman aboard would be killed before they could blink. And Lancelot’s Orion carried a lot of SRMs.

“’Nother scout crippled,” Fungi again. His Scarabus was quick and its pilot was crazy enough to dodge trees rather than slowing down for them. There wasn’t much any tank could do to resist a blow from the Scarabus’s hatchet. “It ain’t dead but it’s so wrecked up a bump in the road’s likely to take `em out. They’ll be running home to mama for sure.”

“Let them withdraw, then,” Lancelot ordered. “Find something that’s still shooting back and take it out.”

“Roger that,” Fungi laughed. “If I take out this enemy Stalker next, can I keep it?”








Movement Phase
Warhammer (Player)
- Attempts to enter hex 1909: insufficient MP (needs 5, has 4)!
- - Unable to change facing, hex 1810 is not adjacent to destination hex 1909! Original facing kept!

Orion (Player)
- Attempts to enter hex 1711: Hex already occupied!

Scarabus (Player)
- Attempts to enter hex 0621: insufficient MP (needs 11, has 10)!

Wolfhound (Player)
- Unable to change facing, hex 1420 is not adjacent to hex 1620!



Shooting Phase
Hunchback (Player)
- Attacks Pegasus A (4 skill + 3 TMM + 2 range + 1 woods = 10): rolled 7, miss!

Watchman (Player)
- Attacks Pegasus A (4 skill + 3 TMM + 2 range + 2 jumped= 11): rolled 5, miss!

Shadow Hawk (Player)
- Attacks Men Shen Prime (4 skill + 3 TMM + 2 range + 2 woods = 11): rolled 7, miss!

Blackjack (Player)
- Attacks Urbanmech UM-R63(A) (4 skill + 3 TMM + 2 range + 1 woods + 2 jumped = 12): rolled 8, miss!

Warhammer (Player)
- No Line of Sight to target!
- No Line of Sight to secondary target!

Orion (Player)
- Attacks Pegasus A (4 skill + 3 TMM + 2 range + 1 woods = 10): rolled 11, hit! 4 damage sustained! Crit! Combat Vehicle Forced to Withdraw!

Marauder (Player)
- Attacks Snake (4 skill + 3 TMM + 2 range + 2 woods + 2 jumped - 1 jumping jack = 12): rolled 8, miss!

Grasshopper (Player)
- Attacks Snake (4 skill + 3 TMM + 2 range + 2 woods + 2 jumped = 13): automatic miss!

“Fire” Javelin (Player)
- Attacks Men Shen Prime (4 skill + 3 TMM + 0 range + 3 woods = 10): rolled 7, miss!

Scarabus (Player)
- Attacks Pegasus B with Melee (4 skill + 3 TMM + 0 range = 7): rolled 10, hit! 4 damage sustained! Crit! Combat Vehicle Forced to Withdraw!

Wolfhound (Player)
- Attacks Snake (4 skill + 3 TMM + 2 range + 1 woods = 10): rolled 8, miss!

Spider (Player)
- No Line of Sight to target!

Snake
- Attacks Wolfhound (4 skill + 2 TMM + 2 range + 2 jumped = 10): rolled 7, miss!

Urbanmech UM-R63(A)
- Attacks Marauder (4 skill + 2 TMM + 2 range + 2 woods - 1 stationary - 1 sandblaster = 8): rolled 11, hit! 2 damage sustained! Gains 1 heat!

Crusader Prime
- Attacks Orion (3 skill + 1 TMM + 2 range + 1 woods = 7): rolled 4, miss!

Men Shen Prime
- Attacks Blackjack (4 skill + 2 TMM + 2 range + 1 woods = 9): rolled 2, miss!

Jinggau
- Attacks Wolfhound (4 skill + 2 TMM + 2 range = 8): rolled 5, miss!

Lao Hu
- Holds fire!

Cyclops
- Holds fire!

Stalker
- Attacks Scarabus (4 skill + 4 TMM + 2 range + 2 woods = 12): rolled 7, miss!

Sha Yu
- Holds fire!

Vindicator
- Attacks Watchman (4 skill + 3 TMM + 2 range + 1 woods = 10): rolled 4, miss!

Pegasus A
- Attacks Watchman (4 skill + 3 TMM + 2 range + 1 woods = 10): rolled 12, hit! 2 damage sustained!

Pegasus B
- Attacks Scarabus (4 skill + 4 TMM + 0 range + 1 woods = 9): rolled 6, miss!



End Phase:
Pegasus A
- Chance for Motive System Damage: rolled 11, movement halved!
- Critical chance: rolled 11, Crew Killed!

Pegasus B
- Chance for Motive System Damage: rolled 9, -1 movement!
- Critical chance: rolled 3, Crew Stunned!








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Special Rules
Forced Withdrawal - `Mechs and Vehicles which suffer more than 50% structure damage will automatically attempt to retreat off the nearest friendly board edge. Units with only 1 point of structure will withdraw if all of their armor is destroyed.



Primary Objectives
Primary Objectives
- Destroy or Drive Off All Enemy Scouts (2/8 destroyed)
or
- Destroy or Drive Off All Enemy `Mechs (2/12 destroyed)



Orders Due: Midnight Tuesday!