Mac's Shieldbreakers

[Deathknight69]

The unit was stationed on Skye for a security job when the 5 of February 3068 an invasion from the FWL hit Skye. Duke Kelswa-Steiner called every militia and mercenary unit on-planet to Skye's defense. Their first mission was to take out and old abandoned LAAF airbase in some swamp and had been bombing the capital with the help of a lance from the Fourth Skye Rangers. The mercenaries caught the Sirian Lancers by surprise and hammered them hard before they could get on track. Mac and the rest of the command lance pounded the standby fighters while the rest of the unit hit everything else. They mauled them and took most of the FWL units down. Only a couple of hovertanks and a badly shot-up Trebuchet got away into the swamp, and some of the Rangers' aerospace boys finished the job the next day. The Lancers were gone two days later. IE wrapped things up quickly, and the Shieldbreaker's got off-planet ASAP. Mac thought that something stunk about this Leaguer assault. The list of the FWL equipment found after the Shieldbreaker's assault was much better than expected. He though the FWL had found another source for equipment, and his leading candidate was the Word of Blake.

We did take a lot of damage during this fight, hopefully the "acquired salvage" will make up for it. St. Lucifer (Mac's Banshee) needs some new guns for starters, The Cyclops and Whammer-8D both suffered internally, the rest of the unit took armor damage. I'm looking thru the spare parts to see what I can put on the Banshee - It won't be stock anymore.

[truetanker]

Hmm..

Praise Herb and pass the Nuclear!



TT

[DOC_Agren]

I'm thinking your enemies found a supplier named TT the Wobble Dealer  8)

[truetanker]

I'm thinking your enemies found a supplier named Mr. Pi the Wobble Dealer  8)

Fixed for you...

Mr. Pi

[Deathknight69]

Well Mr. Pi The WoBblie dealer didn't do a thing positive for me. The unit does still live, Mac's Banshee still needs weapons. The unit has taken flight from Skye only to land at Hesperus Galatea to use some contacts for possible jobs and acquire some more bodies and equipment. So, The Shieldbreakers are currently looking for work and bodies, equipment, et cetera for a few months on Galatea.

[truetanker]

Looks like we, the Word of Blake need to clean up what the Clans say, " Isola ", Individuals, Supplies, OR LAnd. A hard scortch earth clean up that'll take centuries to reclaim for the local indigenous population...

TT

[Deathknight69]

While I'm working out what to do next track-wise, I've done a little rp-ing to build up the unit some. I added a mixed vee lance of 2 Myrmidon's and 2 Striker's for starters, and acquired 2 squads of Gray Death standard BA (Laser) jockey's. Gotta find a Maxim or two to haul them around with. I did also acquire a stripped MAD-5A chassis to find an engine and gyro for until I can get the Banshee re-armed.

[truetanker]

Rando rolls and a master sheet?

How much dough per roll you burning?

Whatcha got as current TO&E?

TT

[Daryk]

A Heavy Hover APC should do the trick for quite bit fewer C-Bills... :)

[Deathknight69]

Current TO&E for the Shieldbreakers circa April '68;

Mech Lance:

MAD-5A Marauder II, CP-11-G Cyclops, ON1-K Orion, WHM-8D Warhammer, SHD-5M Shadow Hawk, WVR-7M Wolverine

Vehicle Lance's;

Fire Support: 2 Myrmidon Medium Tank, 2 Striker Light Tank

Recon: 2 Pegasus Scout Hovertank, 2 Heavy Hover APC each w/ a squad of Gray Death standard Laser BA

This is the cleaned up and repaired unit at the moment...

[Stormrider]

We're looking at what track to do next, spit-ballin' idea's as to where and when, etc.

[truetanker]

Simple garrison?

Minor supply raid?

TT

[Stormrider]

We're not sure yet, that's why we're going over idea's

[truetanker]

Then I bid Whispersv of Blake in a Trial of Possession...

 
 

TT

[Deathknight69]

You ain't gonna bid anything TT !! I forbid you from implementing any thing or things that will adversely affect the unit and campaign !!

[truetanker]

 

Boo-Hiss!

TT

[Horsemen]

We're not sure yet, that's why we're going over idea's

What are your options?

[Deathknight69]

Run some book track's, do a home built track, do down-time to recruit and build up the unit.

[Horsemen]

Which book tracks out of curiosity?

[truetanker]

Sharpens his grinder for fresh meat...

 
TT

[Deathknight69]

@Horsesmen: "Game On!", "Golden Goose" or "Full Metal Press". One of these 3 would be the next book track to run. If we decide to do a book track, question is which one to do ? All have benefits to parlay into the unit and will serve to launch the unit to even more glory and prestige !

It's a question of what to do and the way to do it ?

[Deathknight69]

If I parrot "Gannon's Cannons" I'll be doing some serious hand-waving of actual in-game jumpship transit times and burn to and from planetside times to accomplish them the way the Cannons did. Because factoring in actual gameplay stuff that way means not being able to follow the Cannons track by track.

[Deathknight69]

So it'll be up to Stormrider and I to figure out what we want to accomplish and how to go about it.

[truetanker]

*Sticks his nose in... Sniffs, wanders around a bit...*

(Truetanker imitating Wombat)

 

TT

[Stormrider]

We're hashing idea's and we'll move on it soon.

[Horsemen]

@Horsesmen: "Game On!", "Golden Goose" or "Full Metal Press". One of these 3 would be the next book track to run. If we decide to do a book track, question is which one to do ? All have benefits to parlay into the unit and will serve to launch the unit to even more glory and prestige !

It's a question of what to do and the way to do it ?

Golden Goose was a lot of fun. I've run it twice with one of them being a combined BT and CBT/MW3 RPG. I also like it given the options for the next tracks.

[Stormrider]

It is the one we're leaning towards again. We've tried it before with Dk69's previous units.

[Deathknight69]

"We're heading to Solaris folks", "Game On" will be the next track to run.

[truetanker]

Can you guys run a Solaris game or several?

I nominate Freeborn Nova Commander Pi, 38 male, hailing from Clan Hell's Horses in a SLDF-era Thug- 11Eb Reich edition, Zellbrigen Stables. He prefers long-range but quick and dirty if need be, also like to run cool in battle. Fair skills that are cold calculative, competitive when needed, currently on a self winning streak, follows opportunistic rules in life, be it combat or other. Some say his genetic codex is part Scorpion, part Shark but all Horse.

His mech was a captured SLDF-era Scorpion relic, that Pi isola'd from during a raid, trading in his damaged Stormcrow Omni for it, he quickly mastered the unit's simplicity. Lacking parts to comply with his new machine, he bartered his way to Solaris, whereas the former Seeker pilot became the technician. Currently, Pi has a running streak of two wins favoring him...

TT

[Horsemen]

"We're heading to Solaris folks", "Game On" will be the next track to run.

Grin! Have fun!