Okay Doc, I am officially changing the Oniwaka Company in charge of the LZ defense to the 2nd as by the bios below they are the most appropriate for defensive operations and should have been here. Oversight on my part.
Olgr Gangleri (Ice Hellion)
Born on Rasalhague, Olgr Gangleri was an oddity in the ‘Mech oriented DCMS as an expert infantry leader, able to stubbornly defend any position in spite of overwhelming odds or to launch and take fortified positions and stay there until reinforcements came.
He proved it time after time during the War of 3039 and the early battles of the Clan Invasion, leading whole platoons and earning for himself the nickname of Fudō for the protective deity in Buddhism, the Immovable One.
In spite of being born on what became the capital of the Free Rasalhague Republic, Shujin Gangleri decided to stay with the Draconis Combine seeing this as “his duty” and never displayed any lack of motivation to perform it.
However because of his noticeable Scandinavian origins (Olgr Gangleri is a blonde giant more akin to a Viking warrior of old than to a Samurai) and of an obscure reference written in his personal file about “the Arteson’s mark”, he was sent on some Periphery worlds facing only bandits and pirates, until he came across Kenji Minamoto that brought Fudō with him in the Oniwaka unit.
David Sakamoto and Serina Akiyama (Calderon)
When growing up, David was always larger than all the other children. He found himself being picked on and bullied by the other children for his size quite often. When he was 13 years old and already well over 6 foot, this not only continued but got worse. At this point in his life he was in a much better position not to take it anymore. He started fighting back against these bullies and fought back effectively. No matter how well trained his adversaries his brute force always made him the victor on the playground. But since he was usually the victor over the children from more influential families he tended to come out the loser with school policy. It wasn’t until he put four boys in the hospital (including a Duke’s son) when he was 14, that they decided to send him to a special school for children with disciplinary problems.
Now Serina was one of those girls who was never really noticed. She took this to her advantage and was the class prankster. When she pranked the wrong person, she was noticed that day. She was badly beaten and after that her parents enrolled her into martial arts, self-defense classes. She took to this training quite well and paired it with her abilities to blend in and vanish in the crowds to enhance her pranks. One of these pranks got her a one-way ticket straight to the very same school that David found himself a part of.
David experienced the same issues in the new school that he had in regular schools until he met Serina. The two were practically inseparable. Serina began to train David in the martial arts she knew and in turn David offered her protection when those pranks were noticed by the other students. Eventually they were both noticed and recruited by the Sohei. David now measuring at 7’10” was a shoe in for the Oniwaka. Serina with her small physical size and training become a marine with many special talents including zero-g fighting. To keep the bond that these two had together, David’s infantry unit is usually travels with Serina’s ship.
Tanya “Xena” Skrypnikova
Born on Dnepropetrovsk in 3027 and standing in at 6’4” and just under 200 lbs. she has been mistaken before more as a man then woman. Her hand to hand training is in Sambo. As well as being a crack shot with her Sternsnacht Claymore Heavy Pistol. She command a platoon of Motorized Heavy Armored Infantry or as they are known Heruhaundo.
Motorized Heavy Armored Infantry or Heruhaundo ヘルハウンド “Hellhounds” Vet
based on this idea http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Heavy_Infantry
Ours will be carrying Laser Rifles backed by Semi-Portable Particle Cannon. If they are deployed correctly they can hold off a lance, and require you to send a Company worth of assets to dig them out. They were raised by the O5P as a defensive force, yet have been transferred to Sohei as a combat unit against the clans.
Olgr like Zena sounds like a heavy weapons commander and ideally suited to static defense such as our scenario here. David Sakamoto and Serina Akiyama (written by Calderon) are ideally suited to coordinate the ground defense as I imagined marines on board the three ground dropships being active throughout the scenario here.
So with that resolved what sort of preparations do you think they would have made in advance of this scenario?
How big would the three grounded dropships be? I'm looking for hex sizes so I can place them on the map. How far apart do you think they would be here? Safe distance when landing and taking off weighed against the best possible security perimeter. I would their weaponry would certainly be brought to bear in this scenario if at all possible.
What do you think your sapper Mechs should be doing Doc? The Firestarter and the Hatchetman? Currently the BattleMech field strength of the unit looks like this in terms of operational units.
Command Lance - 100%
Mobile Assault Lance 1 - 100%
Mobile Assault Lance 2 - 100%
Mobile Assault Lance 3 - 75% (Catherine Kennedy out)
Battle Lance 1 - 75% (Jak Warren out)
Battle Lance 2 - 75% (Aika Gunma out)
Battle Lance 3 - 100%
Strike Lance 1 - 75% (Katsumi Watanabe out)
Strike Lance 2 -100%
Strike Lance 3 -100%
So four lances down one Mech a piece.
