Part 12: Mission 6: Stabbing the Scorpion

"MechWarriors! Attend!

"Well enough. Lynx pulled through surgery, and will be back on the roster inside 24 hours."






"Alright! Briefing commences now. Lance One, consisting of Hitman in the Hunchback-J, Mystique in the Firestarter-J and Hunter in the Catapult-A will head for Nav Alpha. There, you will meet up with a deep infiltration lance, Two, and from there you will assault this Smoke Jaguar base. The Scorpion Bay logistics node, call sign Troy, is a hub for resupply. We are to engage the defenders, capture the base, and hold off the Smoke Jaguar reinforcements."



"The base itself has light mobile defenses. It's set up behind a couple of artificial terraces with AC10 turrets on most of the approaches. Once you're arrived at the engagement zone, reorganize yourselves. There is a Kit Fox-J in the reinforcements, so one lance will be pure JumpJets, while Hunter will take charge of the rest. Hitman, take your lance and assault the base, going over the weakpoint along the east side of the base. Hunter, take your Lance and head to the north-west of the base to engage reinforcements before they get to the base. Fall back if you have to.
This is a time sensitive mission. We have to capture the base HQ before they can properly alert their command structure about our attack. Once we've captured it, we have to defend it from all local forces. Capturing the Turret control tower will allow us to use their defences against them, while there is also a Sensor control tower that if captured, will give us a ring od advanced sensors to see where they're coming from.
Everyone else not mentioned will find alternate breifings in their files. You'll be assigned to other commanders for this mission.
This is the last operation of Skyhook as with the completion of this advance, we will have secured enough logistics and supply nodes to carry through our next Operational offences. MechWarriors, we must succeed. Failure here means failure of the entire front. Dismissed!





"Hello Ronin. It's good of you and your people to join us."





"On the whole, our particular offensive was a success, but Yankee's taken the brunt of the Smoke Jaguar forces. Early reports indicate that we may have made landfall against a whole Galaxy of Clan Mechs, and Intel is still sorting through the mess."






















Alright, the Colonel is ready to broadcast an Operation update. We have officially finished with Skyhook, and it is time to move forward.
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I'm really sorry about the write up. The mission was quite 'blah' after practicing a few times, and I could practicaly do it blind. And that passed on to the write up.
Who here remembers what the Op3.1 is? That's right, it's the other hellish mission people love to hate!